Who adopts agroforestry in a subsistence economy?—Lessons from the Terai of Nepal

A Dhakal, RK Rai - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Agroforestry is recognized as a sustainable land use practice. However, the uptake of such a
promising land use practice is slow. Through this research, carried out in a Terai district of …

Data-driven optimization of processes with degrading equipment

J Wiebe, I Cecílio, R Misener - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In chemical and manufacturing processes, unit failures due to equipment degradation can
lead to process downtime and significant costs. In this context, finding an optimal …

Prediction of frost occurrences using statistical modeling approaches

H Lee, JA Chun, HH Han, S Kim - Advances in Meteorology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We developed the frost prediction models in spring in Korea using logistic regression and
decision tree techniques. Hit Rate (HR), Probability of Detection (POD), and False Alarm …

Maximum entropy derived and generalized under idempotent probability to address Bayes-frequentist uncertainty and model revision uncertainty: An information …

DR Bickel - Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Typical statistical methods of data analysis only handle determinate uncertainty, the type of
uncertainty that can be modeled under the Bayesian or confidence theories of inference. An …

Machine learning approach for climate change impact assessment in agricultural production

S Singh, KVS Babu, S Singh - … techniques for climate change with machine …, 2023 - Elsevier
Agricultural production mainly depends on weather conditions. Both aspects are interiorly
connected with each other in several aspects, as climate change is the key factor of plant …

Two-state imprecise Markov chains for statistical modelling of two-state non-Markovian processes

M Troffaes, T Krak, H Bains - International Symposium on …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper proposes a method for fitting a two-state imprecise Markov chain to time series
data from a two-state non-Markovian process. Such non-Markovian processes are common …

Recommending encounters according to the sociodemographic characteristics of patient strata can reduce risks from type 2 diabetes

H Ye, UK Mukherjee, D Chhajed, J Hirsbrunner… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Physician encounters with patients with type 2 diabetes act as motivation for self-
management and lifestyle adjustments that are indispensable for diabetes treatment. We …

Recovering forecast distributions of crop composition: method and application to Kentucky agriculture

GS Kim, M Nemati, S Buck, N Pates, T Mark - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a novel application of the multinomial logit (MNL) model using
Cropland Data Layer and field-level boundaries to estimate crop transition probabilities …

A robust Bayesian analysis of the impact of policy decisions on crop rotations

L Paton, M Troffaes, N Boatman, M Hussein… - 2015 - durham-repository.worktribe.com
We analyse the impact of a policy decision on crop rotations, using the imprecise land use
model that was developed by the authors in earlier work. A specific challenge in crop …

Binary credal classification under sparsity constraints

T Basu, MCM Troffaes, J Einbeck - International Conference on …, 2020 - Springer
Binary classification is a well known problem in statistics. Besides classical methods, several
techniques such as the naive credal classifier (for categorical data) and imprecise logistic …