527 research outputs found
Optimal False Discovery Control of Minimax Estimator
In the analysis of high dimensional regression models, there are two
important objectives: statistical estimation and variable selection. In
literature, most works focus on either optimal estimation, e.g., minimax
error, or optimal selection behavior, e.g., minimax Hamming loss. However in
this study, we investigate the subtle interplay between the estimation accuracy
and selection behavior. Our result shows that an estimator's error rate
critically depends on its performance of type I error control. Essentially, the
minimax convergence rate of false discovery rate over all rate-minimax
estimators is a polynomial of the true sparsity ratio. This result helps us to
characterize the false positive control of rate-optimal estimators under
different sparsity regimes. More specifically, under near-linear sparsity, the
number of yielded false positives always explodes to infinity under worst
scenario, but the false discovery rate still converges to 0; under linear
sparsity, even the false discovery rate doesn't asymptotically converge to 0.
On the other side, in order to asymptotically eliminate all false discoveries,
the estimator must be sub-optimal in terms of its convergence rate. This work
attempts to offer rigorous analysis on the incompatibility phenomenon between
selection consistency and rate-minimaxity observed in the high dimensional
regression literature
Effects of Low-Level Laser Therapy and Eccentric Exercises in the Treatment of Patellar Tendinopathy
The study aims to investigate if low-level laser therapy (LLLT) combined with eccentric exercises could more effectively treat patellar tendinopathy than LLLT alone and eccentric exercises alone. Twenty-one patients with patellar tendinopathy were randomized to three groups: laser alone, exercise alone, or laser plus exercise, with seven in each group. Laser irradiations were administered at the inferior pole of the patella and the two acupoints of Extra 36 (Xiyan) with the intensity of 1592 mW/cm2. Eccentric training program consisted of three sets of 15 repetitions of unilateral squat on level ground. All patients received six treatments per week for four weeks. Knee pain and function and quadriceps muscle strength and endurance were evaluated at baseline and the end of treatment. After the 4-week intervention, all groups showed significant improvements in all the outcomes (P<0.01). The laser + exercise group had significantly greater improvements in all the outcomes than the other two groups (P<0.05), except nonsignificant difference in pain relief between the laser + exercise group and the laser group. In conclusion, LLLT combined with eccentric exercises is superior to LLLT alone and eccentric exercises alone to reduce pain and improve function in patients with patellar tendinopathy
Strangelets at finite temperature: nucleon emission rates, interface and shell effects
We investigate the properties of strangelets at finite temperature , where
an equivparticle model is adopted with both the linear confinement and
leading-order perturbative interactions accounted for using density-dependent
quark masses. The shell effects are examined by solving the Dirac equations for
quarks in the mean-field approximation, which diminish with temperature as the
occupation probability of each single-particle levels fixed by the Fermi-Dirac
statistics, i.e., shell dampening. Consequently, instead of decreasing with
temperature, the surface tension extracted from a liquid-drop formula increases
with until reaching its peak at -40 MeV with vanishing shell
corrections, where the formula roughly reproduces the free energy per baryon of
all strangelets. The curvature term, nevertheless, decreases with despite
the presence of shell effects. The neutron and proton emission rates are fixed
microscopically according to the external nucleon gas densities that are in
equilibrium with strangelets, which generally increase with (
MeV) for stable strangelets but decrease for those that are unstable against
nucleon emission at . The energy, free energy, entropy, charge-to-mass
ratio, strangeness per baryon, and root-mean-square radius of -stable
strangelets obtained with various parameter sets are presented as well. The
results indicated in this work are useful for understanding the products of
binary compact star mergers and heavy-ion collisions
Expression quantitative trait locus studies in the era of single-cell omics
Genome-wide association studies have revealed that the regulation of gene expression bridges genetic variants and complex phenotypes. Profiling of the bulk transcriptome coupled with linkage analysis (expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) mapping) has advanced our understanding of the relationship between genetic variants and gene regulation in the context of complex phenotypes. However, bulk transcriptomics has inherited limitations as the regulation of gene expression tends to be cell-type-specific. The advent of single-cell RNA-seq technology now enables the identification of the cell-type-specific regulation of gene expression through a single-cell eQTL (sc-eQTL). In this review, we first provide an overview of sc-eQTL studies, including data processing and the mapping procedure of the sc-eQTL. We then discuss the benefits and limitations of sc-eQTL analyses. Finally, we present an overview of the current and future applications of sc-eQTL discoveries
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