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Trailblazer: The Legacy of Bishop Henry M. Turner During the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crowism
When the Civil War began in 1861, the conflict evoked feelings of pride, patriotism, and hatred in both blacks and whites. As the war raged on, Reverend Henry McNeal Turner ministered to his brethren serving in the United States Colored Troops (USCT), segregated units of the Union Army. Although slavery ended in 1865 with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction died with his assassination. The Ku Klux Klan and ex–Confederates not only regained control of the South but also resisted the federal government’s early attempts at civil rights legislation by intimidating, murdering, and disenfranchising ex–slaves. In response to the brutality and the rise of Jim Crowism, Turner served as a beacon of hope for thousands of freedmen while respectively serving in state and local politics. Bishop Henry M. Turner’s story deserves more attention because he is an overlooked transitional figure in American history. This paper will examine Turner’s contributions to the A.M.E. Church, politics, and civil rights
On the asymptotic behaviour of the correlation measure of sum-of-digits function in base 2
Let denote the number of digits "" in a binary expansion of any
. We study the mean distribution of the quantity
for a fixed positive integer .It is shown that solutions
of the equationare uniquely identified by a finite
set of prefixes in , and that the probability distribution of
differences is given by an infinite product of matrices whose coefficients
are operators of .Then, denoting by the number of
patterns "" in the binary expansion of , we give the asymptotic
behaviour of this probability distribution as goes to infinity as well
as estimates of the variance of the probability measure $\mu\_a
Evaluating probabilistic forecasts with scoringRules
Probabilistic forecasts in the form of probability distributions over future
events have become popular in several fields including meteorology, hydrology,
economics, and demography. In typical applications, many alternative
statistical models and data sources can be used to produce probabilistic
forecasts. Hence, evaluating and selecting among competing methods is an
important task. The scoringRules package for R provides functionality for
comparative evaluation of probabilistic models based on proper scoring rules,
covering a wide range of situations in applied work. This paper discusses
implementation and usage details, presents case studies from meteorology and
economics, and points to the relevant background literature
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