Shrinkage estimation of nonlinear models and covariance matrix

... SHRINKAGE ESTIMATION OF NONLINEAR MODELS AND COVARIANCE MATRIX JIANG QIAN (B.Sc and M.Sc Nanjing University) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS ... consider a way of simplifying a model through variate clustering Extension of the approach to the estimation of covariance matrix will 13 1.2 Research Objectives...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:55

... the mathematical model and performed experiments on language data of the morphologically complex language Zulu We compared the performance on increasing training set sizes and analysed for each ... (Creutz, 2006) They used a natural language tagger which was trained on the output of ParaMor and Morfessor The goal was to mimic each algorithm since ParaMor is rule-based...

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... Dorr, and Richard Schwartz ings of Human Language Technology Conference and 2004 A Lexically-Driven Algorithm for Disfluency Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural LanDetection In Proceedings of ... Proceedings of the 21st International cies in Conversational Speech In Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th Rich Transcription Fall Work...

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... 18:177-80 Nishida T, Sugiyama T, Kataoka A, Ushijima K, Yakushiji M: Histologic characterization of rat ovarian carcinoma induced by intraovarian insertion of a 7,12-dimethylbenz [a] anthracenecoated suture: ... human breast carcinomas Breast Cancer Res Treat 2009, 113:43-58 Yamamoto H, Nakayama T, Murakami H, Hosaka T, Nakamata T, Tsuboyama T, Oka M, Nakamura T, Toguchida J: High...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... scouring, (duration of treatment, and a record of any samples collected for NIVR) o Age and speculative cause of death o Number weaned and date o Date of next service (an example of a sow card is ... Vietnam Project Leader) for delivery to selected farmers in Quang Tri province for the project High performance gilts were introduced into Thua Thien Hue province in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... the phase offset of the channel The proposed method of blind estimation of the phase offset is based on a MAP approach in the sense of maximizing the probability that a phase θ corresponds to the ... denotes the number of rows in the parity check matrix of the code, uk is the number of nonzero elements in the kth row of the parity check matrix...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... -1st 2P subburstd P Payload -2nd 2P subburstP P L Payload P L Figure 1: 2P burst format, 3P burst format, and 4P burst format [12–14], but only for joint carrier phase /Doppler-shift estimation ... number of subgroups of data symbols In the sequel we find the values of x that minimize the VCRBs of ν and α, for fixed values of L, N, and M In the case of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... underestimation of crown projection area in beech stands shows that the estimation of Estimation of crown dimensions 401 Table V Comparison of total crown area and covered ground area, calculated from measured ... crown radii in pure stands (A: spruce, B: beech) and mixed stands (C: spruce, D: beech) Estimation of crown dimensions 399 Figure Comparison of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... non-random selection on the parents (using phenotypic records or BLUP of breeding values) on the sampling properties of EBLUP and Bayesian estimates of breeding values assuming models with or without effects ... Bayesian and EBLUP estimation regarding the overall rank correlation of breeding values and of estimable contrasts of CG effects with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI, USA) during the study period The primary goal of this study was to validate the hypothesis that the diameter of the right IJV is greater than the left one, and secondary ... angiography analysis method have been previously evaluated both for diameter and area, and were 0.89 and 0.90, and 0.90 and 0.91, respectively [7] The IJV...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... affecting clutch length Selection on clutch length in layers 233 4.2 Phenotypic trends, selection response, and the effect of the NA gene Selection for average clutch length in the dwarf laying ... by their genotype for the NA gene In addition to the investigation of the genetic variability of clutch length in dwarf layers, thi...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... MULTISTEP YULE- WALKER ESTIMATION OF AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS YOU TINGYAN (B.Sc Nanjing Normal University) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS ... well-known Yule- Walker method and our new multistep Yule- Walker method based on the autocorrelation function (ACF) is made The effect of different number of Yule- Walker equ...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:59

... likelihood P(y) and conditional likelihood P(y|x) of the ATIS1 training trees, and the marginal likelihood P(x) of the ATIS1 training strings, as well as the labelled precision and recall of the ATIS2 ... tiny training and test corpus In order to avoid the computational difficulty of conditional estimation, we compared closely related (but not identical) HMM tagging and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:20

... projection matrix model, as it was stated in and 2.2, the stable diameter distribution is defined by the right eigenvector W0 of the projection matrix A Thus, it is independent of the harvesting ... defines the stable diameter distribution and, consequently, the long-term dynamics of the non harvested populations On the other hand, and assuming t...

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