The recent influx in generation, storage, and availability of textual data presents researchers
with the challenge of developing suitable methods for their analysis. Latent Semantic …

Separation is encountered in regression models with a discrete outcome (such as logistic
regression) where the covariates perfectly predict the outcome. It is most frequent under the …

" This defining work will be valuable to readers and researchers in social sciences and
humanities at all academic levels. As a teaching resource it will be useful to instructors and …

Scientific and engineering applications depend on floating point arithmetic to approximate
real arithmetic. This approximation introduces rounding error, which can accumulate to …

genoud is an R function that combines evolutionary algorithm methods with a derivative-
based (quasi-Newton) method to solve difficult optimization problems. genoud may also be …

This study examined how the police conceptualize juveniles involved in prostitution as
victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) or delinquents. Case files from six police agencies …

Entrepreneurs increasingly use reward-based crowdfunding to finance innovation projects
through a large number of customer investments. The existing academic literature has …

Excel 2007, like its predecessors, fails a standard set of intermediate-level accuracy tests in
three areas: statistical distributions, random number generation, and estimation. Additional …

Floating-point arithmetic plays a central role in science, engineering, and finance by
enabling developers to approximate real arithmetic. To address numerical issues in large …

Background: In many parts of the world, stark racial disparities in human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) prevalence, incidence, prevention, and care outcomes persist among gay …