Conveners
INVITED North American
- Bjarne Bergquist (Luleå University of Technology)
In reliability analysis, methods used to estimate failure probability are often limited by the costs associated with model evaluations. Many of these methods, such as multifidelity importance sampling (MFIS), rely upon a computationally efficient, surrogate model like a Gaussian process (GP) to quickly generate predictions. The quality of the GP fit, particularly in the vicinity of the failure...
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) diagnostic tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID) have been commonplace during the global pandemic. PCR tests involve genomic sequencing of saliva samples. Genomic sequencing allows scientists to identify the presence and evolution of COVID. When a sample is run through a sequencer, the sequencer will make a read on each genomic base pair and the number of times...
Although confirmatory modeling has dominated much of applied research in medical, business, and behavioral sciences, modeling large data sets with the goal of accurate prediction has become more widely accepted. The current practice for fitting and evaluating predictive models is guided by heuristic-based modeling frameworks that lead researchers to make a series of often isolated decisions...