and improving intercoder reliability in discourse tagging using statistical techniques. Biascorrected tags axe formulated and successfully used to guide a revision of the coding manual and develop an automatic classifier.

Abstract. In this paper, we evaluate the accuracy and robustness of intensity-based 2D-3D registration for six image similarity measures using clinical gold-standard spine image data from four patients. The goldstandard transformations are obtained using four bone-implanted fiducial markers

Abstract In both corporate finance and asset pricing empirical work, researchers are often confronted with panel data. In these data sets, the residuals may be correlated across firms and across time, and OLS standard errors can be biased. Historically, the two literatures have used different

in the tail of the distribution. In particular, standard methods such as least-squares fitting are known to produce systematically biased estimates of parameters for power-law distributions and should not be used in most circumstances. Here we describe statistical techniques for making accurate parameter

the ith row of the database and g maps data-base rows to [0, 1]. We extend the study to general functions f, proving that privacy can be preserved by calibrating the standard deviation of the noise according to the sensitivity of the function f. Roughly speaking, this is the amount that any single

Estimation of the dynamic error components model is considered using two alternative linear estimators that are designed to improve the properties of the standard firstdifferenced GMM estimator. Both estimators require restrictions on the initial conditions process. Asymptotic efficiency

of the target gene relative to some reference group The two most commonly used methods to analyze data from real-time, quantitative PCR experiments are absolute quantifica-such as an untreated control or a sample at time zero tion and relative quantification. Absolute quantification deter- in a

and (for MBEI and RMA) model fit. Finally, we evaluate the algorithms in terms of their ability to detect known levels of differential expression using the spike-in data. We conclude that there is no obvious downside to using RMA and attaching a standard error (SE) to this quantity using a linear model

Abstract. Data analysis applications typically aggregate data across many dimensions looking for anomalies or unusual patterns. The SQL aggregate functions and the GROUP BY operator produce zero-dimensional or one-dimensional aggregates. Applications need the N-dimensional generalization

RDF and RDF Schema are two W3C standards aimed at enriching the Web with machine-processable semantic data.