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Muyin Wang
dblp:319/0154
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Information theory · 61% Mathematical optimization · 39% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information theory › probability theory
heavy-tailed distributions |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Is Least-Squares Inaccurate in Fitting Power-Law Distributions? The Criticism is Complete Nonsense · WWW 2022 |
Mathematical optimization
least squares |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Is Least-Squares Inaccurate in Fitting Power-Law Distributions? The Criticism is Complete Nonsense · WWW 2022 |
Information theory › probability theory
probability distributions |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Is Least-Squares Inaccurate in Fitting Power-Law Distributions? The Criticism is Complete Nonsense · WWW 2022 |
Mathematical optimization
statistical estimation |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | Is Least-Squares Inaccurate in Fitting Power-Law Distributions? The Criticism is Complete Nonsense · WWW 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
maximum likelihood estimation · 0.6least-squares estimation · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Is Least-Squares Inaccurate in Fitting Power-Law Distributions? The Criticism is Complete NonsenseabstractOrdinary least-squares estimation is proved to be the best linear unbiased estimator according to the Gauss-Markov theorem. In the last two decades, however, some researchers criticized that least-squares was substantially inaccurate in fitting power-law distributions; such criticism has caused a strong bias in research community. In this paper, we conduct extensive experiments to rebut that such criticism is complete nonsense. Specifically, we sample different sizes of discrete and continuous data from power-law models, showing that even though the long-tailed noises are sampled from power-law models, they cannot be treated as power-law data. We define the correct way to bin continuous power-law data into data points and propose an average strategy for least-squares to fit power-law distributions. Experiments on both simulated and real-world data show that our proposed method fits power-law data perfectly. We uncover a fundamental flaw in the popular method proposed by Clauset et al. [12]: it tends to discard the majority of power-law data and fit the long-tailed noises. Experiments also show that the reverse cumulative distribution function is a bad idea to plot power-law data in practice because it usually hides the true probability distribution of data. We hope that our research can clean up the bias about least-squares fitting power-law distributions. Xiaoshi Zhong, Muyin Wang, Hongkun Zhang |
WWW | 2 |