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Around 60 years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division was established for prohibiting discrimination based on protected attributes. Over these 60 years, they established a set of policies and guidelines to identify and penalize those who discriminate1.

The widespread use of machine learning (ML) models in routine life has prompted researchers to begin studying the extent to which these models are discriminatory. However, some researcher are unaware that the legal system already has well established procedures for describing and proving discrimination in law. In this series of blog posts, we’ll try to bridge this gap. We give a brief overview of the procedures to prove discrimination in law, focusing on employment, and discuss its analogy to discrimination in machine learning. Our goal is to help ML researchers assess discrimination in machine learning more effectively and facilitate the process of auditing algorithms and mitigating discrimination.

This series of blog posts is based on CM-604 Theories of Discrimination (Title VII) and chapters 6 and 7 of TITLE VI Legal Manual. In this first blog post, we discuss the first type of illegal discrimination known as disparate treatment, and in the second blog post, we discuss the second type of illegal discrimination known as disparate impact.

Machine Learning Analogy
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# Protected Attributes

Anti-discrimination laws are designed to prevent discrimination based on one of the following protected attributes:

# Definition of Disparate Treatment

Disparate treatment occurs when an employer treats some individuals less favorably than other similarly situated individuals because of their protected attributes. “Similarly situated individuals” is specific to each case and cannot be defined precisely, intuitively it means individuals who are situated in a way that it is reasonable to expect that they would receive the same treatment.

During the legal proceddings, the charging party (the party that believes it has suffered from disparate treatment, e.g., employee) accuses the respondent (the party that is accused of treating the charging party less favorably because of their protected attributes, e.g., employer) of disparate treatment.

Although historically, the charging party has to establish that the respondent deliberately discriminated against them, it has been recognized that it is difficult and often impossible to obtain direct evidence of discriminatory motive; therefore, the discriminatory motive can be inferred from the fact of differences in treatment3.

Disparate Treatment in Machine Learning
Humans can have racist, sexist, etc., motives and make decisions based on them, but why would an ML model which does not have any such motives treat similarly situated people differently based on their protected attributes? There are many ways that biases can creep into ML models and cause discrimination (see this short note).
As an example, let’s consider distribution bias in data. Due to previous historical discrimination against women, there is a large gap between the average income of men and the average income of women. Although this gap is narrowing over time, it has not been eliminated. Consider a bank that uses an ML model to predict the income of its customers to give them loans accordingly. Consider a very extreme case, where there are no features except the gender of applicants. In this case, it is optimal for the model to rely on the protected gender attribute and predict average income for men if the applicant is a man, and average income for women if the applicant is a woman. Reliance on protected attributes leads to better error in comparison to predicting average income for everyone. Such reliance (and thus disparate treatment) is an optimal strategy for the ML model (see 4 for more details).

# Legal Procedure

The legal process for proving disparate treatment comprises three steps:

1. The charging party must establish a prima facie case of discrimination, i.e., providing enough evidence to support their allegations are true.
2. The respondent can rebut the charging party’s case (e.g., providing an alternate explanation for the disparity)
3. The charging party can provide evidence that the respondent’s explanations for its actions are pretext, i.e., an attempt to conceal discrimination.

We now expand each step and briefly mention the related work in ML.

 Main Point of Legal Procedure Despite our desire to have an easy definition for discrimination, proving discrimination is a long-term process that involves both sides bringing in reasons and a judge/jury deciding whether there is discrimination or not.

## First step: Establishing a Prima Facie case

Evidence for disparate treatment discrimination can be presented in three main ways:

### (a) Comparative Evidence

The disparate treatment theory is based on differences in the treatment of similarly situated individuals. “Similarly situated individuals” cannot be precisely defined, and it is context-dependent. Generally, similarly situated individuals are the ones that are expected to receive the same treatment for a particular employment decision.

For example, when there are some predefined qualifications for promotion, similarly situated individuals are those who meet these qualifications. Or, in the case of discharge (firing), the employer provides a reason for the termination, and people who have committed the same misconduct are similarly situated.

Comparative evidence is a piece of evidence that shows that two similarly situated individuals are treated differently due to their protected attributes.

“For example, an employer’s collective bargaining agreement may contain a rule that any employee charged with theft of company property is automatically discharged. If a Black employee who is charged with theft of company property is discharged, the discharge is consistent with the rule and the agreement. However, the analysis does not end there. To determine whether there was disparate treatment, we should ascertain whether White employees who have been charged with the same offense are also discharged. If they are merely suspended, disparate treatment has occurred. The key to the analysis is that they are similarly situated employees, yet the employer failed to apply the same criteria for discharge to all of them. They are similarly situated because they are respondent’s employees and were charged with the same misconduct. The difference in discipline could be attributable to race, unless respondent produces evidence to the contrary.”5

ML Efforts on Providing Comparative Evidence
In simple interpretable models we can investigate the features that the model relies upon and find similarly situated individuals 6. For black-box models (e.g., neural nets), there is a lot of research on interpretability to understand model decisions and find similarly situated individuals. In general, models that can provide explanations for their decisions might facilitate the investigation of discrimination. However, if ML models are proprietary then finding similarly situated individuals is challenging. One approach to provide comparative evidence is to define similarly situated individuals as individuals who are only different in their protected attributes or some of their strong proxies and then show that the model’s prediction changes with the protected attribute. For example, 7 show that toxicity detection models give different toxicity scores to the same sentence with different identity terms (e.g., I’m gay vs. I’m straight). 8 show that Google is showing different ads for African American names vs. White names.

### (b) Statistical Evidence

Statistical evidence can also be used to demonstrate discriminatory motives. Charging party uses statistical evidence to prove that the respondent uses protected attributes in its decision9. For example, Alice believes that she is not hired for a secretarial position because she is Black. She can buttress her allegation with statistical evidence indicating that the respondent employs no Black secretaries despite the many applicants in its Metropolitan Statistical Areas. The statistical data shows that the respondent refused to hire Blacks as secretaries; thus, Alice’s rejection was pursuant to this practice. Note that in statistical evidence unlinke the comparative evidence Alice does not need to find a similarly situated individual to herself. It is important to note that statistics alone will not normally prove an individual case of disparate treatment 10.

ML Efforts on Providing Statistical Evidence
For generating statistical evidence, a common approach in ML is to generate multiple groups with the same distribution on all features except the protected features and test if the model treats groups differently. For example, 11 show that Google is showing different ads to simulated web browsers with the identical history but different selected genders.
A second approach is to control for all potentially relevant risk factors and compare the error rates between groups. The disparity among groups can be evidence of relying on protected attributes. For example, 12 show that there is a performance disparity between pedestrian detection with different skin colors, controlling for time of day and occlusion. So they suggest that these performance disparities could be due to skin color alone, not just due to darker-skinned pedestrians appearing in harder-to-detect scenes13.
Studies like 11 illustrate that advertisement models are directly using the gender of a person for ad targeting. This is especially problematic for housing, employment, and credit (“HEC”) ads. Following multiple lawsuits, Facebook agreed on a settlement to apply the following rules when HEC ads.
1) Gender, age, and multicultural affinity targeting options will not be available when creating Facebook ads.
2) HEC ads must have a minimum geographic radius of 15 miles from a specific address or from the center of a city. Targeting by zip code will not be permitted.
3) HEC ads will not have targeting options that describe or appear to be related to personal characteristics or classes protected under anti-discrimination laws. This means that targeting options that may relate to race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, family status, disability, and sexual orientation, among other protected characteristics or classes, will not be permitted on the HEC portal.
4) Facebook’s “Lookalike Audience” tool, which helps advertisers identify Facebook users who are similar to advertisers’ current customers or marketing lists, will no longer consider gender, age, religious views, zip codes, Facebook Group membership, or other similar categories when creating customized audiences for HEC ads.
5) Advertisers will be asked to create their HEC ads in the HEC portal, and if Facebook detects that an advertiser has tried to create an HEC ad outside of the HEC portal, Facebook will block and re-route the advertiser to the HEC portal with limited options.
Google also announced in 202014 that “A new policy will prohibit impacted employment, housing, and credit advertisers from targeting or excluding ads based on gender, age, parental status, marital status, or ZIP Code, in addition to our longstanding policies prohibiting personalization based on sensitive categories like race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, national origin or disability.”
Note that even though the advertisers do not target according to the protected attributes, it is still possible that the models use such protected attributes for ad targeting (i.e., models still use protected attributes as a feature for finding the optimal audience for HEC ads). Thus a follow-up study similar to 15 is necessary to make sure that the model does not use gender as a feature for ad targeting.
Suggestions on providing statistical evidence
Studies such as 11 are necessary for auditing machine learning models that are deployed. For example, there should be easy ways to investigate if Linkedin (for hiring) is sensitive to protected attributes, or if Twitter or Facebook discriminate in promoting a business page. Such investigation can happen by providing appropriate tools and requiring businesses to be transparent about their methods.

### (c) Direct Evidence of Motive

Direct evidence of motive can be demonstrated by:

1. Any statement by the respondent that indicates a bias against members of a protected group
2. Showing a failure to take appropriate corrective action in situations where the respondent knew or reasonably should have known that its employees’ practices/policies/behaviors were discriminatory (e.g., not taking action in a sexual harassment case).
ML efforts on Providing Direct Evidence of Motive
The process of pretraining a model on a large amount of data and then tuning it for a particular purpose is becoming increasingly common in ML. Examples of such models include Resnet pretrained on ImageNet 16 and language models such as BERT 17 and GPT-3 18.
There are many works in fairness in ML that show that the word embeddings in language models or features in vision models are misrepresenting 19 20 21 22, or underrepresenting 23 some protected groups.
Suppose a company that has knowledge of such biases uses the pretrained BERT model without any constraint as the backbone of its hiring models. In that case, the stereotypical representation of the protected groups can serve as direct evidence of motive 24.
 Main Point of Step 1: Establishing a Prima Facie Case There are three main ways to provide a prima facie case for disparate treatment: Comparative evidence Statistical evidence Direct motive evidence ML researchers facilitate providing proof via following: Providing interpretable models or models that can explain their decision so that the charging party can find “similarly situated individuals” for comparative evidence. Provide tools (e.g., Adfisher) to check if a black box model relies on protected attributes and its strong proxies for statistical evidence. Heavy analysis of prevalent models that are used as pretraining for direct evidence of motive.

## Second Step: Rebutting the Prima Facie Case

In the second step, the respondent can bring some evidence to show that the evidence presented by the charging party is not valid. There are six types of rebuttals the respondent can provide:

##### (b) Comparison of Similarly Situated Individuals Was Not Valid

This evidence can usually be in the form of (1) Individuals compared are not similarly situated, or the hired individual is more qualified, and (2) Not all similarly situated individuals were compared

##### (c) Respondent’s Actions were Based on an Act of Favoritism

Title VII only prohibits discrimination based on protected attributes. If in isolated instances a respondent discriminates against the charging party in favor of a relative or friend, no violation of Title VII has occurred.

However, if there are indications that the respondent hired their relative to avoid hiring people from some protected groups, there should be an investigation to determine if the respondent’s actions were a pretext to hide discrimination. In this case, the respondent’s workforce composition and their past hiring practices would be important pieces of evidence.

##### (d) Charging Party’s Statistical Proof Is Not Meaningful

The respondent can show that statistical proof is not meaningful e.g., it considers the pool of applicants in the state instead of the city.

##### (e) Statistical Proof To Rebut an Inference of Discriminatory Motive

The respondent can provide statistical data showing that they have not discriminated against protected groups. For example, showing that they have employed a high proportion of a protected group. Even though these kinds of evidence serve as support, they are not conclusive proof that discrimination did not occur. There may not be a pattern and practice of discrimination, but an individual case of disparate treatment may have occurred.

##### (f) Respondent’s Actions Taken Pursuant to an Affirmative Action Plan

“Affirmative action under the Guidelines is not a type of discrimination but a justification for a policy or practice based on race, sex, or national origin. An affirmative action plan must be designed to break down old patterns of segregation and hierarchy and to overcome the effects of past or present practices, policies, or other barriers to equal employment opportunity. _It must be a concerted, reasoned program rather than one or more isolated events. It should be in effect only as long as necessary to achieve its objectives and should avoid unnecessary restrictions on opportunities for the workforce as a whole. For more details, see the affirmative action manual.”

ML Efforts on Understanding and Mitigating Disparate Treatment
The ML community has made a lot efforts to understand why a model will rely on protected attributes to either rebut the evidence in step 1 or come up with mitigation methods that guarantee that no discriminatory evidence can be held against them.
Understanding why ML models rely on protected attributes: One of the simplest and most frequently studied reasons for such behavior is biased training data. Historically, discrimination was practiced on the basis of protected characteristics (e.g., disenfranchisement of women). These discriminations artificially influenced the distributions of a variety of societal characteristics. Because the data used to train most ML models reflects a world where societal biases exist, the data will almost always exhibit these biases. These biases can be encoded in the labels, such as gender-based pay disparity, or in the features, such as the number of previous arrests when making bail decisions 25. When biased data are used to train ML models, these models frequently encode the same biases. Although learning these biases in ML models, and relying on protected attributes, may achieve low test error, these models can propagate the same injustices that led to the biased data in the first place. Even when protected attributes are explicitly withheld from the model, they remain a confounding variable that influences other characteristics in a way that ML models can pick up on. However, note that training data is not the only reason and biases can creep into the ML cycle at different stages, see this short note.
Mitigate disparate treatment: Regarding comparative and statical evidence, ML advocates interpretable models so that it would be easy to argue that the model does not demonstrate disparate treatment 6. In domains such as vision or text, one common approach is to use GAN-style generation and show that the model is invariant to change in protected attributes 26. Regarding the direct evidence of motive, there are many work suggestions fixing word embeddings and predefined features in images and showing their invariance to change in protected attributes 21 27.
Main Point of Step 2: Rebutting the Prima Facie Case
As more ways of evaluating ML models are developed, thinking about how they can be connected with their analogues in law would be invaluable. A good practice exercise for a research scientist at a company would be showing that no obvious prima facie case (with any of the three different types of evidence) can be brought against the proposed model.

## Third Step: Proving Pretext

Once the respondent states a legitimate justification for the decision, the charging party can rebut the argument and claim that it’s a pretext for discrimination. For instance, the charging party might present evidence or witnesses that contradict those submitted by the respondent. Or the charging party can show that the respondent gives different justifications at different times for its decision.

Machine Learning Analogy for Proving Pretext
The first rebuttal against alleged disparate treatment in ML was that they do not use protected attributes as features. Many ML researchers argue that although not using protected attributes and their strong proxies is necessary, it is far from being sufficient. It is easy for machine learning models to predict the protected attributes from other attributes. Therefore, ML models can still be alleged for disparate treatment even when they do not use the protected attributes.
In response, counterfactual reasoning has been studied to find “similarly situated” individuals that are treated differently by the algorithm 28 29. However, there are many concerns with counterfactual reasoning with respect to the protected attributes which we summarize here.
Immutability of group identity: One cannot argue about the causal effect of a variable if its counterfactual cannot even be defined in principle 30 31.
Post-treatment bias: considering the effect of characteristics that are assigned at conception (e.g., race, or sex) while controlling for other variables that follow birth introduces post-treatment bias 32 33.
Inferring latent variables: Counterfactual inference needs strong assumptions regarding data generation.
 Main Point of Step 3: Proving Pretext Only removing protected attributes (and their strong proxy) is not enough! ML models can simply predict protected attributes from other (nonessential) attributes.

# Real Legal Cases34

### Age Discrimination

“JPL systemically laid off employees over the age of 40 in favor of retaining younger employees. The complaint also alleges that older employees were passed over for rehire in favor of less qualified, younger employees. Such conduct violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA),” according to the EEOC.”

### Race Discrimination

“Koch subjected individual plaintiff/intervenors and classes of Hispanic employees and female employees to a hostile work environment and disparate treatment based on their race/national origin (Hispanic), sex (female), and further retaliated against those who engaged in protected activity. Allegedly, supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday work activities. Further, a class of Hispanic employees was subject to retaliation in the form of discharge and other adverse actions after complaining.”

Ramifications: “Koch Foods, one of the largest poultry suppliers in the world, paid \$3,750,000 and furnish other relief to settle a class employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC charged the company with sexual harassment, national origin and race discrimination as well as retaliation against a class of Hispanic workers.”

# Acknowledgment

We would like to thank Alex Tamkin, Jacob Schreiber, Neel Guha, Peter Henderson, Megha Srivastava, and Michael Zhang for their useful feedback on this blog post.

1. For example, the federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination charges around 90,000 cases each year, of which around 15% result in monetary benefit (~300 million per year) for the charging party.

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/gay-transgender-workers-supreme-court.html

3. Teamsters, supra; Commission Decision No. 71-1683, CCH EEOC Decisions (1973) ¶ 6262.

4. Khani, Fereshte, and Percy Liang. “Feature noise induces loss discrepancy across groups.” International Conference on Machine Learning. PMLR, 2020.

5. Example from 604.3 (a) of CM-604 Theories of Discrimination

6. Rudin, Cynthia. “Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead.” Nature Machine Intelligence 1.5 (2019): 206-215.  2

7. Garg, Sahaj, et al. “Counterfactual fairness in text classification through robustness.” Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. 2019.

8. Sweeney, Latanya. “Discrimination in online ad delivery.” Communications of the ACM 56.5 (2013): 44-54.

9. International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. U.S., 431 U.S. 324, 14 EPD ¶ 7579 (1977)

10. Bolton v. Murray Envelope Corp., 493 F.2d 191, 7 EPD ¶ 9289 (5th Cir. 1974)

11. Datta, Amit, Michael Carl Tschantz, and Anupam Datta. “Automated experiments on ad privacy settings: A tale of opacity, choice, and discrimination.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6491 (2014).  2 3

12. Wilson, Benjamin, Judy Hoffman, and Jamie Morgenstern. “Predictive inequity in object detection.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.11097 (2019).

13. Note that, there are many objections to this method as there might be some relevant features that are not reported and not considering them causes false evidence of disparate treatment (see Jung, Jongbin, et al. “Omitted and included variable bias in tests for disparate impact.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.05651 (2018) for more details).

14. Interestingly, while ML researchers have been doing many studies on complicated ways to infer and mitigate discrimination since 2011, up until 2020, HEC advertisers could directly target users with their gender!

15. Datta, Amit, Michael Carl Tschantz, and Anupam Datta. “Automated experiments on ad privacy settings: A tale of opacity, choice, and discrimination.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6491 (2014).

16. He, Kaiming, et al. “Deep residual learning for image recognition.” Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2016.

17. Devlin, Jacob, et al. “Bert: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04805 (2018).

18. Brown, Tom B., et al. “Language models are few-shot learners.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.14165 (2020).

19. Bolukbasi, Tolga, et al. “Man is to computer programmer as woman is to homemaker? debiasing word embeddings.” Advances in neural information processing systems 29 (2016): 4349-4357.

20. Caliskan, Aylin, Joanna J. Bryson, and Arvind Narayanan. “Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases.” Science 356.6334 (2017): 183-186.

21. Steed, Ryan, and Aylin Caliskan. “Image representations learned with unsupervised pre-training contain human-like biases.” Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. 2021.  2

22. Abid, Abubakar, Maheen Farooqi, and James Zou. “Large language models associate Muslims with violence.” Nature Machine Intelligence 3.6 (2021): 461-463.

23. Oliva, Thiago Dias, Dennys Marcelo Antonialli, and Alessandra Gomes. “Fighting hate speech, silencing drag queens? artificial intelligence in content moderation and risks to LGBTQ voices online.” Sexuality & Culture 25.2 (2021): 700-732.

24. This is our analogy of direct evidence of motive to machine learning, and this kind of reasoning has not yet been successfully used in courts. In addition, as we see in the next section, the respondent can rebut such evidence with a protected attribute-neutral explanation (see Hernandez v. New York in which jurors were struck because of their Spanish speaking ability and the explanation was that the prosecutor wanted all jurors to hear the same story from Spanish-speaking witnesses through a translator, not through their own spanish language knowledge)

25. Ramchand, Rajeev, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, and Martin Y. Iguchi. “Racial differences in marijuana-users’ risk of arrest in the United States.” Drug and alcohol dependence 84.3 (2006): 264-272.

26. Denton, Emily, et al. “Detecting bias with generative counterfactual face attribute augmentation.” arXiv e-prints (2019): arXiv-1906.

27. Bolukbasi, Tolga, et al. “Man is to computer programmer as woman is to homemaker? debiasing word embeddings.” Advances in neural information processing systems 29 (2016): 4349-4357.

28. Kusner, Matt J., et al. “Counterfactual fairness.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06856 (2017).

29. Nabi, Razieh, and Ilya Shpitser. “Fair inference on outcomes.” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 32. No. 1. 2018.

30. Holland, Paul W. “Statistics and causal inference.” Journal of the American statistical Association 81.396 (1986): 945-960.

31. Freedman, David A. “Graphical models for causation, and the identification problem.” Evaluation Review 28.4 (2004): 267-293.

32. As a simple example, consider the effect of race on the salary of people. We cannot compare the salary of two people of different races at the same job level because race might have led one of them to get mis-leveled.

33. Rosenbaum, Paul R. “The consequences of adjustment for a concomitant variable that has been affected by the treatment.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (General) 147.5 (1984): 656-666.

34. Examples from https://www.digitalhrtech.com/disparate-treatment/


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Multivariate Outlier Detection and Treatment in Business Surveys Beat Hulliger University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland School of Business FHNW 4600 Olten, Switzerland e-mail: beat. MD is a multivariate outlier detection method which uses the classical mean and classical covariance matrix to calculate Mahalanobis distances. mahal returns the squared Mahalanobis distance d 2 from an observation in Y to the reference samples in X. Abstract: Mahalanobis Distance (D 2) Statistic is a multivariate statistical method that has been used to model habitats occupied by wildlife and plant species. The ground-truth samples Mahalanobis distance is similar to minimum distance, are introduced as sets of pixels selected to represent actual except that the covariance matrix is used instead. Keywords: Initial alignment, MIMU/GPS/magnetometer, Mahalanobi s distance, Robust estimation, Sequential Kalman filter Introduction. PCA yields the directions (principal components) that maximize the variance of the data, whereas LDA also aims to find the directions that maximize the separation (or discrimination) between different classes, which can be useful in pattern classification problem (PCA "ignores" class labels). Mahalanobis distance is computed on the basis of the variance of data points. com/profile/12252100465045558580 [email protected] how to calculate the mahalanobis distance with my data(two groups of continuous variable intercept) [ Edited ]. In multivariate hypothesis testing, the Mahalanobis distance is used to construct test statistics. A small effect of. The Mahalanobis distance is a measure of the distance between a point P and a distribution D, introduced by P. Understanding Cook's Distance in SPSS Identifying Multivariate Outliers with Mahalanobis Distance. Comparative studies with Mahalanobis distance based method and one-class support vector machine (SVM) are reported showing that the proposed method performs better in finding outliers. In this paper, a nonlinear optimization model is formulated. 64) would yield ½ NRI of 0. medium, and large effect sizes, respectively. Despite their simplicity and generalization ability, Mahalanobis distances suffer from two major drawbacks: 1) the number of parameters to. Again, this is in contrast with the alarms and warnings detected for medium powers using the Mahalanobis distance where there was not such a big accentuation. Actually, in this paper we propose the mahalanobis distance similarity measure (MDSM)-based HOOD, and one can use the MDSM-based HOOD to recover the secret key used by the target crypto device. Why outliers detection is important? Treating or altering the outlier/extreme values in genuine observations is not a standard operating procedure. Level up your coding skills and quickly land a job. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience is a forum for the interdisciplinary field of neural computing, neural engineering and artificial intelligence, where neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, engineers, psychologists, physicists, computer scientists, and artificial intelligence investigators among others can publish their work in one. This problem was lessened by eliminating the highly correlated peaks and reselecting the characteristics. 11 Dinaroid: 15 7 0. I have the vectors for the elements of the d_ijs in a data table dt, one column per element (say there are x of them). This description of turbulence is captured by a statistic known as the Mahalanobis distance. According to Euclidean Distance: You are metrically closest to Plate 34, Figure 3 (distance = 16) You are metrically furthest from Plate 5, Figure 1 (distance = 77) According to Mahalanobis. A small effect of. The Mahalanobis distance is a well‐known criterion which may be used for detecting outliers in multivariate data. Note: In mathematics, the Euclidean distance or Euclidean metric is the "ordinary" (i. You can edit the position of any existing points by dragging the marker (when they are displayed) and dropping the marker in it's new position. Regression analysis helps an organisation to understand what their data points represent and use them accordingly with the help of business analytical techniques in order to do better. The benefit of using mahalanobis distance is, it takes covariance in account which helps in measuring the strength/similarity between two different data objects. In the statistical analysis of observational data, propensity score matching (PSM) is a statistical matching technique that attempts to estimate the effect of a treatment, policy, or other intervention by accounting for the covariates that predict receiving the treatment. Some of the commonly used distance metrics are mentioned below. I would like to calculate the mahalanobis distance of one observation in data. According to Cohen, “a medium effect of. Written by Peter Rosenmai on 25 Nov 2013. Mahalanobis distance was used to test the data for multivariate normality. 2 is noticeably smaller than medium but not so small as to be trivial. It is found from Monte Carlo simulation that Mahalanobis distance ( MDi) identifiers the presence of outliers more often than the others for small, medium and large sample sizes with different percentages outliers in the regressors and in both the regressors and the dependent variable. The outlier detection methods considered in this study are Mahalanobis Distance (MD) method, Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) method and Minimum Volume Ellipsoid (MVE) method. SC had dismissed the pleas of Mukesh, Pawan and Vinay seeking review of its 2017 judgment upholding the capital punishment given to them by the Delhi High Court. I am trying to find the centroid and covariance matrix used by mvoutlier to calculate its Mahalanobis distance. Table of critical Chi-Square values: df p = 0. The unweighted UniFrac distance of the Kazakhstan cheeses was significantly different from other groups (p < 0. The samples were randomly reassigned to treatments, the CV analysis was performed, and the mean distance was noted. This research seeks to identify physical fitness and CV biomarkers that best resemble underlying CV risk with age. YADAV AND JITENDRA SINGH [Management of cropping systems for resource conservation]. 65 in the baseline 2 model would be 0. “The Mahalanobis distance for functional data with applications to classification”. Mahalanobis distance (MD) was used for. In this work, we proposed a novel method for detecting moving objects in long-distance imaging through a turbulent medium. Antibiotic resistance is closely correlated with antibiotic use in primary care and is a major threat to public health. The shape matching is difficult in case of the real world images like mpeg database images since the real world images has the internal and external contours. Publications Methods for Performing Mobile Communications Mobile Terminal Devices, Base Stations, and Network Control Devices, Intel Patent Application IDF124210 (P60889), September 2015. The Evaluation of Global Accuracy of Romanian Inflation Rate Predictions Using Mahalanobis Distance was employed by Eisenbeis, Waggoner and Zha (2003) and Bauer, Eisenbeis, Waggoner and Zha (2006). The idea of measuring is, how many standard deviations away P is from the mean of D. Unsteady MHD Convective Flow of Mircopolar Fluid Through Porous Medium Past a Semi-Infinite. For comparison, under the same assumptions, a medium effect size of 0. Popular indices such as Mahalanobis' distance and Cook's D are frequently used to detect outliers. Reporting the number of subjects where mahalanobis distance was not computed and the number of covariates with missing data below the dialog threshold. Abstract: Mahalanobis Distance (D 2) Statistic is a multivariate statistical method that has been used to model habitats occupied by wildlife and plant species. This description of turbulence is captured by a statistic known as the Mahalanobis distance. 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Mahalanobis Distance • Test computer shows different Percentage of data distribution of MD values as compared to baseline computer • This demonstrates the test computer has different signature Healthy (Baseline) System Abnormal System. Mahalanobis distance approach is an effective method in quantifying the degree of correspondence of infrared spectra, also in discriminating different substances. An alternative approach is to scale the contribution of individual variables to the distance value according to the variability of each variable. Users can use existing mean and covariance tables or generate them on-the-fly. teria, a Mahalanobis-Taguchi System (MTS)-based tool was developed to facilitate the selection of a prime set of criteria, which is a subset of the original criteria for ensuring that only ineffective subcriteria are eliminated and the conditions are prepared for relevant strategy formulation. Python Exercises, Practice and Solution: Write a Python program to compute the distance between the points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2). Nice to see the Google doodle on the great scientist, statistician and one of India's finest sons, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. The Evaluation of Global Accuracy of Romanian Inflation Rate Predictions Using Mahalanobis Distance was employed by Eisenbeis, Waggoner and Zha (2003) and Bauer, Eisenbeis, Waggoner and Zha (2006). Mahalanobis distance and Chi-squared quantile value were larger than 5 and fall outside from the majority of the observations. Table of critical Chi-Square values: df p = 0. In the example below, the Mahalanobis distance between v1 and v2 uses variances in the source table, and the result is 2. To estimate the travel cost, find the Trip Cost from DumDum Rail Station to Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya!. the stalks, the mass of 10 stalks, the medium brix and the brix production in kilograms for each plot. We talked before about the Cartesian coordinate system. The Mahalanobis distance is a measure of the distance between a point P and a distribution D. 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Mahalanobis Distance • Test computer shows different Percentage of data distribution of MD values as compared to baseline computer • This demonstrates the test computer has different signature Healthy (Baseline) System Abnormal System. Understanding Cook's Distance in SPSS Identifying Multivariate Outliers with Mahalanobis Distance. In order to obtain a similar result, we have to scale the squared Mahalanobis distance to give a new statistic called Hotelling's T 2, which we will denote by H. This post describes how I went about visualizing probability density functions of 3-dimensional Dirichlet distributions with matplotlib. The Research Mining Technology Dr. For real-time applications, it is important to have a simple algorithm that could perform. In this paper, we propose a new structured Mahalanobis Distance Met-ric Learning method for supervised clustering. First, it must be demonstrated that a Mahalanobis distance measure based on all available variables on the items is able to separate the abnormal items from the normal items. Abstract: Mahalanobis Distance (D 2) Statistic is a multivariate statistical method that has been used to model habitats occupied by wildlife and plant species. Each method is tested in multiple variants. Two methods under N-of-1-pathways framework were developed, N-of-1-pathways Wilcoxon (Wilcoxon) [6,7,8] using a Wilcoxon signed-rank test and the N-of-1-pathways Mahalanobis distance (MD) [10, 12] using a statistical distance from a model of equal expression. The maximum intra-cluster distance (Table 2) was observed in cluster II (9. What is meant by athleticism (as opposed to athletic ability, which is a much broader and more nebulous concept) is the ability to move one’s body quickly (in the sense of acceleration, change of direction, and top speed) and. This paper aims to utilize Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Elevated stations roof area in m2 as solar electricity generation and parallelly to contribute energy by compensates energy dem. In this paper, a nonlinear optimization model is formulated. This distance function can be viewed as learning a linear transformation of the data and measuring the squared Euclidean distance in the transformed space. We use administrative data from Missouri to examine the sensitivity of earnings impact estimates for a job training program based on alternative nonexperimental methods. In order to use the Mahalanobis distance to classify a test point as belonging to one of N classes, one first estimates the covariance matrix of each class, usually based on samples known to belong to each class. This is (for vector x) defined as. Tromberg University of California Published at IEEE Trans. medium, and large effect sizes, respectively. 9 Is the Mahalanobis Distance (MD) an adequate measure for use in the assessment of dissolution similarity, in particular in cases where the f2 statistic is not suitable? Can interval estimation be used to inform decision (updated September 2018). Mahalanobis distance is an euclidian distance (natural distance) wich take into account the covariance of data. It is a lazy learning algorithm since it doesn't have a specialized training phase. decision-making. As multiple variables were included in the statistical models for hypothesis testing, chi-square distribution of Mahalanobis distance estimates, calculated using EPDS, total PBQ scores, and sleep symptoms, was used to remove outliers that exceeded the probability of 99. Some of the commonly used distance metrics are mentioned below. A large effect of. The Mahalanobis ArcView Extension calculates Mahalanobis distances for tables and themes, generates Mahalanobis distance surface grids from continuous grid data, and converts these distance values to Chi-square P-values. Thermo Fisher Scientific is dedicated to improving the human condition through systems, consumables, and services for researchers. 5 is visible to the naked eye of a careful observer. Womens NIKE COURT Hoodie 887491-063 size Medium, NEW BLUE LATEST NYLON DRIVING HARNESS SADDLES HORSE DIAMONATE BROWBAND BRIDLE (e. In estimating a state variable of a target on the basis of a previously estimated state variable and an observation value, a prediction value of a next state variable is found on the basis of the prev. The K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm is a type of supervised machine learning algorithms. The identification of stability about flame combustion plays a vital role in the industrial production of plants. These "clean" observations are used for preliminary estimates of the mean vector and the covariance matrix. Optimality Driven Nearest Centroid Classification from Genomic Data Alan R. 99% Contours of Two Groups X2 X1 C2 C1 P1 Distance Measures Variance-Adjusted Distance This can be adjusted further to account for differences in covariances. Tackling an Unknown Number of Features with Sketching Machine Learning for Big Data CSE547/STAT548, University of Washington Sham Kakade April 12th, 2015 Hash Kernels • Count-Min sketch not designed for negative updates • Biased estimates of dot products • Hash Kernels: Very simple, but powerful idea to remove bias • Pick 2 hash functions:. The Mahalanobis distance D is the natural metric for such comparisons. The Mahalanobis distance (MD) is used to detect abnormalities within the data and classify the data into “normal” and “abnormal” groups. This was because of the working conditions of the WT as stated in the previous section. One of the commonly used distance metrics in the multivariate space is the Mahalanobis Distance (MD), which considers the mean and covariance of the data, and for which larger distances are returned for observations that deviate from the mean in directions with smaller covariance. The abstract should be a brief and comprehensive summary of the contents of the article. The health distances for C-Health and C-Heart will be calculated using the methodology based on statistical (Mahalanobis) distance applied to measurements of quantitative biomarkers. The NbClust package provides 30 indices for determining the relevant number of clusters and proposes to users the best clustering scheme from the different results obtained by varying all combinations of number of clusters, distance measures, and clustering methods. Findings: For small and medium sample sizes and at 10% level of outliers, Mahalanobis distance should be employed for her accuracy of detection of outliers. The implementation of this node performs an exhaustive search of all points to all potential neighbors and is therefore suited for small to medium data sets only. Rao QE is a weighted Euclidian distance matrix. Minkowski Distance Mahalanobis Distance Mahalanobis Distance Common Properties of a Distance Distances, such as the Euclidean distance, have some well known properties. The Mahalanobis distance is a statistical technique that can be used to measure how distant a point is from the centre of a multivariate normal distribution. We consider regression adjustment, Mahalanobis distance matching, and various methods using propensity-score matching, examining. The descriptive statistic (−) − (−) is known as the Mahalanobis distance, which represents the distance of the test point from the mean. 2 and 3) values, among others. The Mahalanobis distance is a measure of the distance between a point P and a distribution D, introduced by P. ch Abstract Multivariate outlier detection based on the Mahalanobis dis-tance with the BACON-EEM algorithm, the TRC algorithm. For high dimensional vectors you might find that Manhattan works better than the Euclidean distance. The correlation between the OPLS-DA model loadings and the original noise-free loadings were also. Let’s get some descriptive statistics for this data. In the first approach, they start with classifying all data points into separate clusters & then aggregating them as the distance decreases. Qualitative Analysis Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy A Comparison of Discriminant 6 Methods in Dissolution Testing The bootstrap error-adjusted single-sam-ple technique IBESTl is shown to perform better than the Mahalanobis distance met ric in qualitative near-M analysis. The kernel credal classification with Mahalanobis distance is investigated in this article. The Mahalanobis D2 analysis uncovered close affinities between Nubians and Egyptians. The Mahalanobis distance performed better than the δ-distance in identifying the known plasmid hosts among 230 bacterial strains, and in proposing candidate long-term hosts that are plausible given our empirical knowledge of plasmid host range. We propose a general information-theoretic approach to semi-supervised metric learning called SERAPH (SEmi-supervised metRic leArning Paradigm with Hypersparsity) that does not rely on the manifold assumption. 65 in the baseline 2 model would be 0. In this study, our aim is to explore Mahalanobis distance in dept and prove that it is a distance of higher dimension. As Mahalanobis distance has a w2 with degrees of freedom equal to the number of independent variables minus 1, it can be used to produce the measure known as Typicality Probability (or simply Typicality). On outcomes for medium-dimensional datasets using the K-means algorithm. Neighbors with Mahalanobis Distance Metric Peter Milder Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-2350 peter. This is a simple consequence of some of the connections between the Mahalanobis distance and the Gaussian distribution discussed in the other answers, but I think it's worth spelling out anyway. 852) reveals maximum genetic diversity followed by cluster II (D2 = 343. The Mahalanobis distances measure the distances in this space between these points and the mean of the ecological niche (i. xla add-in uses the Mahalanobis distance measure. distance: These are algorithms that measure instance distance and similarity, for example, Chebyshev distance, cosine distance/similarity, Euclidian distance, Jaccard distance/similarity, Mahalanobis distance, Manhattan distance, Minkowski distance, Pearson correlation coefficient, Spearman's footrule distance, dynamic time. Again, this is in contrast with the alarms and warnings detected for medium powers using the Mahalanobis distance where there was not such a big accentuation. A four‐wavelength (1704, 1802, 1816 and 2110 nm) equation was derived, which produced a sum of inverse squared distance of 0. On the other hand, the Mahalanobis distance map stored in the person/background image database 530 is obtained by a preparatory training method. 2014 - Mar. Multivariate Statistics - Spring 2012 10 Mahalanobis distance of samples follows a Chi-Square distribution with d degrees of freedom (“By definition”: Sum of d standard normal random variables has. Anomaly detection for IGBTs using Mahalanobis distance Due to their low on-state voltage drop and simple gate drive requirements, IGBTs have been widely used in medium- and high-power motor drives and power supplies. In the study done by (Gu et al. Business News- Read Latest Financial news, Stock/Share Market News, Economy News, Business News on The Economic Times. The Mahalanobis distances measure the distances in this space between these points and the mean of the ecological niche (i. from medium- and light-coloured individuals according Morphometric Analysis of a Population of Diplopods of the alized Mahalanobis D2 distance. Compactness page is another way to find out the best factor number. The increase in Mahalanobis distance is unbounded as the distance multiply. Python Math: Exercise-79 with Solution. He was also one of the members of the first Planning Commission of India. Drivers of Water Use in the Agricultural Sector of the European Union 27 Maria Gerveni, Sandy Dall’Erba and Andre Avelino. Distance Measures Euclidean Distance This does not account for possible differences in variances. If a business firm wants to sustain in its area of operations, it must be well adapted to the surroundings in which it is. 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For large dataset: value of $2 \sqrt{(p+1)/n}$. However, there are some discrepancies about which critical values are suitable for this purpose. The Verge was founded in 2011 in partnership with Vox Media, and covers the intersection of technology, science, art, and culture. Once this registration converges, a. Mahalanobis–Taguchi system (MTS) is a method of pattern recognition, to make quantitative decisions by constructing a multivariate measurement scale. Despite their simplicity and generalization ability, Mahalanobis distances suffer from two major drawbacks: 1) the number of parameters to. School of Distance Education Business Environment Page 3 Preface Environment or surrounding is crucial as far as every business firm, irrespective of their nature-small or medium, manufacturing or service-is concerned. Mahalanobis distance Mahalanobis distance Samples Figure 1 FT-NIR and multivariate analysis of Arabidopsis rosettes. (ii) Mahalanobis distance-based response intensity analysis To investigate effects of source distance and SPLmax (the maximum SPL of the experiments) on a response intensity index, we calculated the MD between the baseline-period average and the averages of 35 min windows (the longest exposure duration) without overlap for the set of movement. Why outliers detection is important? Treating or altering the outlier/extreme values in genuine observations is not a standard operating procedure. Indian scientist and applied statistician ‘Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis’ (29 June 1893 – 28 June 1972) remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. account of small and medium-sized enterprises based on administrative sources Marco Di Zio1 Ugo Guarnera1 Roberta Varriale1 Abstract The paper describes the imputation procedure of the main variables of small and medium-sized enterprise balance sheet. Viele übersetzte Beispielsätze mit "Mahalanobis distance" – Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch und Suchmaschine für Millionen von Deutsch-Übersetzungen. The complete source code in R can be found on my GitHub page. The V-shaped performance reaches a minimum for values around 950 kW. The Mahalanobis distance metric is preferable to the Euclidean distance metric because it allows for some flexibility in the structure of the clusters and takes into account variances and covariances amongst the variables. The critical Mahalanobis distance across the whole dataset was 3. The data were generated using R software from normal distribution while the outliers were from uniform distribution. An alternative approach is to scale the contribution of individual variables to the distance value according to the variability of each variable. 7 days to seek mercy, Tihar tells Dec 16 rape convicts. 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You can also adjust the height of the map to have it large, medium or small in size. And oh, I almost forgot the outlier!. It is important to examine the impact of these influential observations on discriminant analysis. On outcomes for medium-dimensional datasets using the K-means algorithm. Unlike phenomena in order to train the computer system to recognize minimum distance, this method takes the variability of classes data patterns. Storey2,3* 1Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, 2Department of Biostatistics, University of. Anomaly detection for IGBTs using Mahalanobis distance Due to their low on-state voltage drop and simple gate drive requirements, IGBTs have been widely used in medium- and high-power motor drives and power supplies. The EARLINET Mahalanobis distance-based typing algorithm is a method specifically developed for the use on the EARLINET database with a high level of flexibility in order to adapt to the different lidar setups and needs (Papagiannopoulos et al. As Mahalanobis distance has a w2 with degrees of freedom equal to the number of independent variables minus 1, it can be used to produce the measure known as Typicality Probability (or simply Typicality). Mahalanobis in 1936. Clear Map is a reset button that will clear all points and allow you to start measuring a distance again. The Mahalanobis distances measure the distances in this space between these points and the mean of the ecological niche (i. To be more accurate, study-specific power and sample size calculations should be conducted (e. The descriptive statistic (−) − (−) is known as the Mahalanobis distance, which represents the distance of the test point from the mean. Large: d = 0. Image Segmentation By Self Organizing Map With Mahalanobis Distance. We talked before about the Cartesian coordinate system. The Mahalanobis distance is used for matching, where for each treated unit one or several non-treated units are. The power transmission efficiency can be achieved up to 75% at 1 meter distance. The carrots which had irregular shape were those with double or triple roots, cracked carrots, curved carrots, damaged carrots, and broken ones and those with upright shapes were considered as regular shape carrot. If you do not see “data analysis” option you need to install it, go to Tools – Add-Ins, a window will pop-up and check the “Analysis ToolPack ” option, then press OK. PATEL, SANGEETA SHARMA, B. Using Mahalanobis Distance to Find Outliers. Its value will increase when the environmental conditions become more and more different than those observed in the target area. xla add-in uses the Mahalanobis distance measure. Face Recognition in Hyperspectral Images Z. In this paper, we propose a new structured Mahalanobis Distance Metric Learning method for supervised clustering. A Review and Analysis of the Mahalanobis Taguchi System. However, because the direct evaluation of the subsets using a classifier has been computationally too expensive in the past for a medium to large number of variables, variable selection has instead been performed using simple measures of class separation such as Wilk's or the Mahalanobis distance. ClassificationKNN is a nearest-neighbor classification model in which you can alter both the distance metric and the number of nearest neighbors. In this paper, we propose a new structured Mahalanobis Distance Met-ric Learning method for supervised clustering. Before looking at the Mahalanobis distance equation, it’s helpful to point out that the Euclidean distance can be re-written as a dot-product operation: With that in mind, below is the general equation for the Mahalanobis distance between two vectors, x and y, where S is the covariance matrix. The M-Distance between the mean of test batch X1 and the mean of reference batch X2 Similarity region MR was calculated as (Dg was set at 10%) Two dissolution profiles were considered similar if CR MR. Viele übersetzte Beispielsätze mit "Mahalanobis distance" – Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch und Suchmaschine für Millionen von Deutsch-Übersetzungen. 05, with power of 80%. Composite scores derived from the Euclidean distance and Mahalanobis distance showed strong content validity as they were highly correlated (r = 0. In our daily life, we group. Method 1: Mahalanobis Distance Matching 1 Preprocess (Matching) Distance(X i,X j) = p (X i −X j)0S−1(X i −X j) Match each treated unit to the nearest control unit Control units: not reused; pruned if unused Prune matches if Distance>caliper 2 Estimation Diﬀerence in means or a model Gary King (Harvard, IQSS) 23 / 66. We formu-late our problem as an instance of large margin structured prediction and prove that it can be solved very efﬁciently in closed-form. Hungary - Aerial 1931 Yvert 24/5 * MH,Extron Cable Cubby Male-to-Male HDMI Retractor 70-678-04 - New!,New APC Smart-UPS C 1500VA 900W 230V RM 2U Rack Mountable UPS SMC1500I-2U. Tool wear classification and detection using mts. The Mahalanobis distance performed better than the δ-distance in identifying the known plasmid hosts among 230 bacterial strains, and in proposing candidate long-term hosts that are plausible given our empirical knowledge of plasmid host range. The Mahalanobis distance for functional data with applications to classi cation Esdras Joseph, Pedro Galeano and Rosa E. 23) followed by cluster V (7. The corresponding increases in the AUC from 0. Francis Galton used the English term median for the first time in 1881 having earlier used the terms middle-most value in 1869 and the medium in 1880. As described above, the Mahalanobis distance map provided from the distance map generation unit 510 is obtained from normalized skin color regions. In the introduction to k nearest neighbor and knn classifier implementation in Python from scratch, We discussed the key aspects of knn algorithms and implementing knn algorithms in an easy way for few observations dataset. The abnormal data are then further classiﬁed into severity levels of abnormality based on which predictions of RUL are made. The power transmission efficiency can be achieved up to 75% at 1 meter distance. from medium- and light-coloured individuals according Morphometric Analysis of a Population of Diplopods of the alized Mahalanobis D2 distance. The V-shaped performance reaches a minimum for values around 950 kW. % It can be use for distance-in-a-slice (Spacing) or distance-between-slice (Headway), % % A and B must contain two column, % first column is the X coordinates % second column is the Y coordinates % The distance matrix are distance between points in A as row. [email protected] A Mahalanobis hyperellipsoidal learning machine class incremental learning algorithm is proposed. Image quality is fine and land use classification precision is high. euclidean distance 和 cosine distance 欧几里得距离和余弦相似度 05-03 阅读数 92 余弦相似度公式：先入为主地参考一下Mr_EvanChen的博客，介绍的不错，还有python代码实现过程：#consine相似度求解importnumpyasnpfromscipy. 07 Irano-Nordoid: 15 15 0. For close you can see that it is virtually uncorrelated with the past. 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text: @Article{Tang:2017, author = {H. Tang, M.-C. Liu, K.D. McKeegan, F.L.H. Tissot and N. Dauphas}, title = {In situ isotopic studies of the U-depleted Allende CAI Curious Marie: Pre-accretionary alteration and the co-existence of $^{26}$Al and $^{36}$Cl in the early solar nebula}, journal = {Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta.}, booktitle = {}, editor = {}, publisher = {}, month = {}, year = {2017}, volume = {207}, number = {}, pages = {1--18}, note = {}, annote = {}, keywords = {Curious Marie CAI; 26Al - 26Mg systematics; 36Cl - 36S systematics; Aqueous alteration; Origin}, url = {http://sims.ess.ucla.edu/PDF/Tang_et_al_2017.pdf}, doi = {10.1016/j.gca.2017.03.001}, isbn = {}, abstract = {The isotopic composition of oxygen as well as $^26}$Al-$^{26}$Mg and $^{36}$Cl-$^{36}$S systematics were studied in Curious Marie, an aqueously altered Allende CAI characterized by a Group II REE pattern and a large $^{235}$U excess produced by the decay of short-lived $^{247}$Cm. Oxygen isotopic compositions in the secondary minerals of Curious Marie follow a mass-dependent fractionation line with a relatively homogenous depletion in $^{16}$O ($\Delta$$^{17}O of -8\permil) compared to unaltered minerals of CAI components. Both Mg and S show large excesses of radiogenic isotopes (^{26}Mg* and ^{36}S*) that are uniformly distributed within the CAI, independent of parent/daughter ratio. A model initial ^{26}Al/^{27}Al ratio [(6.2 \pm 0.9) \times 10^{-5}], calculated using the bulk Al/Mg ratio and the uniform \delta$$^{26}$Mg* ~ +43$\permil$, is similar to the canonical initial solar system value within error. The exceptionally high bulk Al/Mg ratio of this CAI (~95) compared to other inclusions is presumably due to Mg mobilization by fluids. Therefore, the model initial $^{26}$Al/$^{27}$Al ratio of this CAI implies not only the early condensation of the CAI precursor but also that aqueous alteration occurred early, when $^{26}$Al was still at or near the canonical value. This alteration event is most likely responsible for the U depletion in Curious Marie and occurred at most 50 kyr after CAI formation, leading to a revised estimate of the early solar system $^{247}$Cm/$^{235}$U ratio of (5.6 $\pm$ 0.3) \times $10^{-5}$. The Mg isotopic composition in Curious Marie was subsequently homogenized by closed-system thermal processing without contamination by chondritic Mg. The large, homogeneous $^{36}$S excesses ($\Delta$$^{36}$S* ~ +97$\permil$) detected in the secondary phases of Curious Marie are attributed to $^{36}$Cl decay ($t_{1/2}$ = 0.3 Myr) that was introduced by Cl-rich fluids during the aqueous alteration event that led to sodalite formation. A model $^{36}$Cl/$^{35}$Cl ratio of (2.3 $\pm$ 0.6) \times $10^{-5}$ is calculated at the time of aqueous alteration, translating into an initial $^{36}$Cl/$^{35}$Cl ratio of ~1.7–3 \times $10^{-5}$ at solar system birth. The Mg and S radiogenic excesses suggest that $^{26}$Al and $^{36}$Cl co-existed in the early solar nebula, raising the possibility that, in addition to an irradiation origin, $^{36}$Cl could have also been derived from a stellar source.}, }


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# Paillier Homomoprhic addition overflows after a certain value

I'm new to encryption and am trying to implement Paillier encryption from the wikipedia page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paillier_cryptosystem

I managed to implement the encryption and am successfully able to decrypt as well to get the same message - so thats working which is good.

Then I wanted to check homomorphism and followed this formula for homomorphic addition:

$D(E(m_{1},r_{1})\cdot E(m_{2},r_{2}){\bmod n}^{2})=m_{1}+m_{2}{\bmod n}$

And it works as it should until the number goes larger than a certain value.

For example if msg1 = 50 and msg2 = 100, then using the above formula I can multiply their ciphertexts and it will decrypt to added = 150.

But if the addition of the two numbers go higher than 390 the decryption overflows (?). For example:

msg1 = 100 and msg2 = 100, would give added = 200 once decrypted.

msg1 = 290 and msg2 = 100, would give added = 390 once decrypted.

msg1 = 291 and msg2 = 100, would give added = 0 once decrypted.

msg1 = 292 and msg2 = 100, would give added = 1 once decrypted.

msg1 = 293 and msg2 = 100, would give added = 2 once decrypted.

and so on.

Is this expected behaviour? I must be doing something wrong, but going over the implementation I seem to have every step implemented correctly.

Some guidance here would be appreciated.

I am using Matlab as my tool and I am using the variable precision toolbox for my inputs so overflows should not happen from Matlab, the problem must be at my understanding of the system

• What is your $n$ value? – mikeazo May 17 '18 at 16:21
• @mikeazo my $n$ value is 391, this is from selecting a $p$ value of 23 and a $q$ value of 17. – StuckInPhD May 18 '18 at 11:31
• no. if $n$ is so small, it provides no security. You need $n$ to be about 2048-bit. – Weikeng Chen Jul 9 '18 at 19:57

The plaintext space for Paillier is integers modulo $n$. You are seeing "overflow" at the modulus, which makes sense. You should choose larger primes for both security reasons and to make it so that you can support larger numbers without the "overflow".


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The way the limits in red were changed is simply that the piecewise definition of $H$, stated earlier in the question, says that $H(x)=0$ when $x<0$. Thus $$\int_{-\infty}^0 (\text{anything}\times H(x))\, dx = 0.$$ The idea that $\delta(0)=\infty$ should not be taken too literally. Notice that $$\int_{-\infty}^\infty 3.4\delta(x) f(x)\,dx = 3.4f(0), ... 4 Note that the "definition" of \delta(x) that you cite is more of an informal description, to aid with intuition. The actual definition is by the relation$$\int f(x)\delta(x)\,\mathrm dx = f(0)$$Question 1: We have, by definition,$$\int f(x)\delta(x)\,\mathrm dx = f(0)$$We also obviously have$$\int f(0)\delta(x)\,\mathrm dx = f(0)$$but$$\int ...

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In most common definitions of the Dirac delta (generalized) function, the formula in your post is taken as a definition. But if, for example, you accept that $\delta(x)$ is the Fourier transform of $1$, then it can be proven as follows: $$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x) \delta(x) dx = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x) \left( \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-2\pi i kx} ... 3 It's easy to confuse the image of the curve with the "animation" of a point tracing that curve. Think about that for a second. You can have a perfectly smooth looking image, even a straight line, and still have \gamma'(t)=0 for some t. You just need to imagine a point tracing the line, slowing to a stop, and then picking back up again. On the other ... 3 Very roughly speaking, you can think of a stochastic process as a process that evolves in a random way. The randomness can be involved in when the process evolves, and also how it evolves. 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# how many cubic feet is a 29 inch dryer

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