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36
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21689
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2710
National Ranking
1507

Overview

James E. Foster is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with specific focuses including Finance, Philosophy, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Statistics and Probability, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics such as stochastic processes and financial applications, model reduction and neural networks, time series analysis and forecasting, theology and philosophy of evil, machine learning in healthcare, stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, and random matrices and applications.

James E. Foster has contributed to academic literature through various publications in multiple venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Combinatorics Probability Computing
  • The Philosophical Review
  • Review of Income and Wealth
  • Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Foster include:

  • Neural Controlled Differential Equations for Irregular Time Series, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Neural Rough Differential Equations for Long Time Series, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Brownian bridge expansions for Lévy area approximations and particular values of the Riemann zeta function, 2022, Combinatorics Probability Computing
  • Neural SDEs as Infinite-Dimensional GANs, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The shifted ODE method for underdamped Langevin MCMC, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Foster frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Terry Lyons
  • Patrick Kidger
  • James Morrill
  • Harald Oberhauser
  • Simon McCallum

In addition to journal articles and conference papers, Foster has contributed to book publications. One notable book published by Cambridge University Press is titled The Problem of God in Thomas Reid, projected for release in 2025.

Best Publications

  • A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures

    James Foster;Joel Greer;Erik Thorbecke

  • Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement

    Sabina Alkire;James Foster;James Foster

  • Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis

    Sabina Alkire;James Foster;Suman Seth;Maria Emma Santos

  • Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement

    Sabina Alkire;James Foster;James Foster

  • Polarization and the decline of the middle class: Canada and the U.S.

    James E. Foster;James E. Foster;Michael C. Wolfson

  • Transfer Sensitive Inequality Measures

    Anthony F. Shorrocks;James E. Foster

  • SUBGROUP CONSISTENT POVERTY INDICES

    James E. Foster;Anthony F. Shorrocks

  • Poverty orderings and welfare dominance

    J. E. Foster;A. F. Shorrocks

  • The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later

    James Foster;James Foster;Joel Greer;Erik Thorbecke

  • Black-white inequalities in mortality and life expectancy, 1933-1999: Implications for Healthy People 2010

    Robert S. Levine;James E. Foster;Robert E. Fullilove;Mindy T. Fullilove

  • Measuring health inequality using qualitative data.

    R.Andrew Allison;James E. Foster

  • Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

    James E. Foster;Sabina Alkire

  • Absolute versus Relative Poverty.

    James E Foster

  • Path Independent Inequality Measures

    James E. Foster;Artyom A. Shneyerov

  • Measuring the Distribution of Human Development: methodology and an application to Mexico

    James E. Foster;Luis F. Lopez‐Calva;Miguel Szekely

  • A class of chronic poverty measures

    James E. Foster

  • Ending extreme poverty and sharing prosperity : progress and policies

    Bryce Ramsey Quillin;Marcio Jose Vargas Da Cruz;James E. Foster;Philip Schellekens

  • A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice

    James Foster;Suman Seth;Michael Lokshin;Zurab Sajaia

  • An axiomatic characterization of the Theil measure of income inequality

    James E Foster;James E Foster

  • Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity

    Marcio Cruz;James E. Foster;Bryce Quillin;Philip Schellekens

  • Inequality and poverty orderings

    James E. Foster;Anthony F. Shorrocks

Frequent Co-Authors

Sabina Alkire
Sabina Alkire University of Oxford
Anthony F. Shorrocks
Anthony F. Shorrocks Global Economic Perspectives
Erik Thorbecke
Erik Thorbecke Cornell University
Mark McGillivray
Mark McGillivray Deakin University
Tapan Mitra
Tapan Mitra Cornell University
Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu Cornell University
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen Harvard University
Jason M. Smith
Jason M. Smith University of Oxford

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