... distribution is the and Nelder, 1989), A is modelled as: k logarithm (Me Cullagh where p and u are (p x ) and (q x ) vectors of fixed and random effects respectively, and x and z’are the corresponding ... arising in animal breeding such as, eg, sire, sire and maternal grand sire, and animal models on one hand, and direct and maternal effects on the other hand A simple example of that is the classical ... theory, the quasi- likelihood estimating equations for 13 are obtained by differentiating the log quasi- likelihood function Q(j; y, G) (G being assumed known), with respect to (3, and equating...
... pioneer and surely influenced the path I would take to get this message out My dear friends, Katie, Angie, and Tracey: thank you for your constant encouragement and love My children, Thandi and Tommy, ... their bad habits—like smoking and eating poorly—start to show, whereas people who eat plenty of raw foods and keep their cells clean and healthy start to really stand out and look radiant despite ... fruits and HIGH-PROTEIN DIET BARS AND SHAKES WILL PACK ON POUNDS AND INVITE DISEASE I find it mind-boggling that diet and health enthusiasts of today reach for Myoplex bars, Keto-chips, and soy...
... September K A Papineni, S Roukos, and R T Ward 1998 Maximumlikelihoodand discriminative training of direct translation models In Proc Int Conf on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pages ... understanding system In European Conf on Speech Communication and Technology, volume 2, pages 555-558, Madrid, Spain, September K Macherey, F J Och, and H Ney 2001 Natural language understanding ... 20-28, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, June K A Papineni, S Roukos, and R T Ward 1997 Feature-based language understanding In European Conf on Speech Communication and Technology, pages...
... functional differential equations in general form and for some cases of unbounded right-hand side of the equation see 1, Remark and , 2, Remark and In 1998, Stanˇ k worked on the existence of ... −Δu } 3.4 Now, if 1.5 and 3.2 have a solution u1 k , then Lemma 2.6 and 3.2 show that φ −Δu1 < C and max u1 k : k ∈ T − u1 k : k ∈ T C 3.5 So, u1 k is a solution of 1.5 and 2.4 , that is, u1 ... a solution of 1.5 and 1.6 Similarly, if 1.5 , 3.3 have a solution u2 k , then φ Δu2 < C and max u2 k : k ∈ T − u2 k : k ∈ T C 3.6 So, u2 k is a solution of 1.5 and 2.4 C and φ Δu2 < C, u1 /...
... mm/year and 751 mm/year and the yearly average temperature are 12.95 ◦ C and 19.49 ◦ C, and prevailing winds are SSE and NNE, respectively All climatic data were obtained from the Egirdir and Kas ... 1.5 m spacing in 1969 and 1971 at two sites, in Isparta and Antalya, and two site classes, poor and medium Three replicated plots of heavy thinning, moderate thinning, and control were established ... treatments and wood density, and concluded that wood density was not greatly affected by thinning [65] Based on different tree species, Hapla, Barrett and Kellogg, Harnnrup and Ekberg, Koga et al., and...
... indemnify and save harmless Purdue University from any and all claims that may be asserted or that may arise from any copyright violation Andrew P Hoblitzell Printed Name and Signature ... His support and advice throughout the course of my undergraduate and graduate study and research work have helped me to successfully complete this thesis His constant encouragement and leadership ... TRANSITIVE CLOSURE ANDMAXIMUM NETWORK FLOW 12 v Page 3.1 Document Representation 12 3.2 Pair Relationships 13 3.3 Application of Transitive Closure andMaximum Flow 14...
... proposed by Green and Rivlin, Coleman and Noll, and then by Pipkin and Wang (Coleman and Noll, 1961; Green and Rivlin, 1957; Pipkin, 1964; Wang, 1965) Later, books by Lockett, Findley and Carreau discussed ... used, and their dynamic mechanical properties are of considerable interest and attention because many products and components are subjected to impacts and shocks Analysis and modelling of the quasi- static ... two segments and focuses on two categories of polymeric materials – elastomers and semi-crystalline polymers The quasi- static and dynamic behaviour of these materials were studied and described...
... symmetric but differentiate firms, Bertrand competition and specifying α=42, β=1, γ=8/11 and c=0 There is only one Bertrand-Nash price, which equals to The minimum andmaximum available prices is changed ... meta-study of previous experiments and find that the average of maximumand minimum available prices significantly affects the average price set even though the maximumand minimum available prices ... minimum andmaximum available prices and has not checked it in his study I look through the experiments included in his meta-study, select the ones with payoff tables or minimum andmaximum available...
... frequency or time domain The Rife and Boorstyn (R&B) algorithm [10] belongs to the former class and provides maximumlikelihood (ML) estimates of frequency and phase errors by looking for the ... useful signal, ϕ and fd are the carrier phase and frequency offset, respectively, and w(t) is thermal noise with independent real and imaginary components, each with M Morelli and A A D’Amico Burst#1 ... (AAF) and sampled at some rate fc The filter bandwidth BAAF and the sampling rate are chosen such that the signal component is passed undistorted (even for the maximum frequency offset) and no...
... For instance, G¨ rtz [11], Garciao Frias and Villasenor [12], and Guyader et al [13] worked on the problem of joint source-channel decoding and Zhang and Burr [14] addressed the problem of symbol ... ) is a realizable causal and stable discrete system The problem of this selection is that the overall impulse response F(z) will be the maximum phase and anticausal, and the resulting ISI will ... whitening filter exists and be stable, we have ρ1 = −0.1522 and ρ2 = −0.5746 Taking into account that ρ1 and ρ2 are real valued, we arrive at r2 − ρ1 z−1 − ρ2 z−1 ρ1 ρ2 F(z) = (B.4) and thus the whitening...
... 671 and 630 candidates, 039 and 695 relatives in, respectively, LW and LR breeds) were created by considering all the data collected in the stations in which both candidates for selection and ... ADG1 (0.52 and 0.46 vs 0.30 and 0.34 in LW and LR, respectively) Heritability values were very similar in the breeds for FCR, but larger in the LW breed for DP and MQI (0.39 vs 0.31 and 0.33 vs ... between ADG1 and ADG2 were close to unity in both breeds (0.97 and 0.99 in LW and LR breeds, respectively) Similarly, traits predicting carcass lean content, ie ABT in candidates and ECLC in relatives...
... gives with residual covariance matrix into l T Q- Using that = (Q’)- where W and rcw stand in turn for X and nf, and Z and nr, it o o that R- can be factored from the coefficient matrix in the MME ... sums of squares and crossproducts between traits on the original scale, Y ly’y?), 1, and expand the first row and column correspondingly, ie replace X’y* by q columns X!y! , and Z’y* by columns ... search for the maximum of the likelihood function For the univariate case, Graser et al (1987) and Harville and Callanan (1990) parameterised the analysis to the error variance and its ratio(s)...
... animal / maximum de vraisemblance restreinte / INTRODUCTION Restricted MaximumLikelihood (REl!!IL; Patterson and Thompson, 1971) is considered as the method of choice for estimating variance and ... of fullfilled:andare related; to j) and z!! the general following conditions is i and jare contemporary (ie have a record in the group); i and j have a common descendant; or bothi and j have a ... effects and one class of random effects, 2) to derive an approximate variance-covariance component estimation procedure suited to large data sets and some kinds of multiple trait models, and 3)...
... would be of the form exp(s4 =4), and this is not integrable, i.e., it is not a pdf at all 9.2 ALGORITHMS FOR MAXIMUMLIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION To perform maximumlikelihood estimation in practice, ... is actually equal to the likelihood This means that infomax is equivalent to maximumlikelihood estimation 9.4 EXAMPLES Here we show the results of applying maximumlikelihood estimation to the ... 204 ICA BY MAXIMUMLIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION B A where = , and the pi denote the densities of the independent components This can be expressed as a function of = ( ::: n )T and , giving B b...
... literature and elsewhere in the smoothing literature See Craven and Wahba (1979), Cleveland and Devlin (1988), Buja, Hastie and Tibshirani (1989), Wahba (1990), Hastie and Tibshirani (1990) and Cleveland ... such as reading and manipulating data and initializing graphics devices Books such as Krause and Olson (1997), Spector (1994) and Venables and Ripley (1997) cover this material, and much more Acknowledgements ... the local regression method in univariate and multivariate settings, and extensions to local likelihoodand density estimation Basic theoretical results and diagnostic tools such as cross validation...
... detection based on conjugate subspace matching pursuit andlikelihood ratio test Shiwen Deng1,2 and Jiqing Han∗1 School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ... clean speech and noise, respectively The K-dimensional MP coefficient vectors of speech, noise, and noisy speech are denoted as α s , α n , and α with their kth elements αs,k , αn,k , and αk , respectively ... carried out by incorporating a statistical model and a likelihood ratio test (LRT) [6] Those algorithms assume that the distributions of the noise and the noisy speech spectra are specified in terms...
... detection based on conjugate subspace matching pursuit andlikelihood ratio test Shiwen Deng1,2 and Jiqing Han∗1 School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ... clean speech and noise, respectively The K-dimensional MP coefficient vectors of speech, noise, and noisy speech are denoted as α s , α n , and α with their kth elements αs,k , αn,k , and αk , respectively ... carried out by incorporating a statistical model and a likelihood ratio test (LRT) [6] Those algorithms assume that the distributions of the noise and the noisy speech spectra are specified in terms...
... Section 2.1, and the demonstration of algorithm and comparison between MP coefficients and DFT coefficients are presented in Section 2.2 Deng and Han EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music ... previous frame and λn,k Based on the total probability theorem and Bayes rule, the posterior probabilities of H and H given a k in Deng and Han EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing ... Equation (11), the decision rule using the likelihood ratio is obtained as follows g (12) and equals (10) |αk | exp − (11) π (λn,k + λs,k ) λn,k + λs,k The maximumlikelihood ˆ = {λs,k , k = 1, ,...
... is the GGD measurement noise; N and NI are the discrete versions of T and TI ; discrete time steps are Δts = 1/ fs = 10−2 s, and Θ = [Au Ku Al K l Bl P mus max ]T and Θ = [R L E Pmus max ]T are ... logarithmic likelihood function and the variance in the closed form can be obtained, respectively, as L y1:k ; θ = −N log + log Γ + = (14) where E[|rk |4 ] and E[|rk |2 ] denote the fourth- and secondorder ... parameters T, TI , ttrig (i.e., N, NI , and ktrig ), PEEP, and Pps were set to the real values measured from the subject’s respiratory signals τvi and τve were 0.006 s and τm was set to 60 ms MLE algorithm...