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A Simulation Study on High Dimensional Shrinkage Feature Selection Using MCMC Methods
Linear regression sometimes present us with the problem of high dimensionality –especially when the covariates, p is far greater than …
Benjamin Osafo Agyare
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A Simulation Study on High Dimensional Shrinkage Feature Selection Using MCMC Methods
Prediction of Metastasis Event using Hierarchical Classification with Elastic Nets
Metastasis is major contributor towards cancer-related mortality and can be difficult to detect during early stages. The ability to …
Benjamin Osafo Agyare, Alec Chu, Blessing I. Oloyede
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Prediction of Metastasis Event using Hierarchical Classification with Elastic Nets
A Distributed Optimization Package for R
In distributed optimization, there is a global objective function that is expressed as a sum of local objective functions, each of …
Benjamin Osafo Agyare, Eduardo Ochoa, Victor Verma
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A Distributed Optimization Package for R
A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for US Election Data
We compare federal election results for each state versus the USA in every second year from 1992 to 2016 to model partisan lean of each …
Benjamin Osafo Agyare, Connor Dayton, Jaucelyn Canfield
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A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for US Election Data
Boston Crime Data Analysis: Monthly Prediction with Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average and Gaussian Process Regression
We compare predictions from an Autoregressive (AR) Model and a Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) Model based on Exploratory Data …
Benjamin Osafo Agyare, Ilaria Vinci, Francesco Zuniga
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Boston Crime Data Analysis: Monthly Prediction with Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average and Gaussian Process Regression
A Survival Analysis of the Surrender of Life Insurance Policies of Life Insurance Companies in Ghana
In recent years, life insurance companies in Ghana have had to grapple with the challenge of policy surrenders, as the rate keeps …
Benjamin Osafo Agyare, David Kweku
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A Survival Analysis of the Surrender of Life Insurance Policies of Life Insurance Companies in Ghana