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Bayesian probabilistic heat-health warnings across all California neighborhoods for equitable resource allocation

This paper presents a hierarchical Bayesian spatial modeling framework that generates probabilistic, neighborhood-specific heat-health warnings across California by estimating varying temperature thresholds linked to emergency department visits, thereby enabling equitable resource allocation and forming the basis for the state's official CalHeatScore system.

John Molitor2026-09-01
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Reliable AUC Evaluation for Positive-Unlabeled Classifiers: Calibrated Confidence Intervals under an Unknown Class Prior

This paper proposes a method to derive calibrated, two-sided confidence intervals for the true Area Under the Curve (AUC) in Positive-Unlabeled learning by exactly recovering the target AUC from observable metrics and propagating the uncertainty of the estimated positive fraction, thereby addressing the bias and lack of reliability in current performance evaluations.

Vincent Looten2026-09-01
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Temporal Modeling of Weekly Dengue Cases in Marikina City: A Time-Respecting Comparison of Classical, Machine Learning, and Deep Temporal Models

This study evaluates classical, machine learning, and deep learning models for forecasting weekly dengue cases in Marikina City using a leakage-safe temporal design, finding that while simple baselines performed well during internal validation, the LSTM model achieved superior predictive accuracy on the 2025 out-of-time holdout despite a general tendency to underpredict outbreak-level weeks.

Kal-el John C. Bautista, Luis Arnold N. Respecio, Cyril Troy C. Vinuya, John Paul Q. Tomas, Karl C. Ablola, Bonifacio T. (…)2026-08-31
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Participant-Specific Voice-Presenter Interactions in Short Learning Videos: An Uncertainty-Aware Bayesian Analysis of AI-Generated and Human-Produced Components

This study employs a participant-specific, uncertainty-aware Bayesian hierarchical model to analyze a within-participant experiment, revealing that AI-generated voices paired with AI avatars yield the most favorable engagement and cognitive load profile while highlighting significant individual heterogeneity in responses to audiovisual combinations.

Yanshuai Shi2026-08-31