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Microscopic simulation models have become widely applied tools in traffic engineering. Nevertheless, parameter identification of these models remains a difficult task. This is for one caused by the fact that parameters are generally not directly observable ...
Max-stable processes arise as the only possible nontrivial limits for maxima of affinely normalized identically distributed stochastic processes, and thus form an important class of models for the extreme values of spatial processes. Until recently, infere ...
Bilinear models of count data with Poisson distribution are popular in applications such as matrix factorization for recommendation systems, modeling of receptive fields of sensory neurons, and modeling of neural-spike trains. Bayesian inference in such mo ...
We study the distributed inference task over regression and classification models where the likelihood function is strongly log-concave. We show that diffusion strategies allow the KL divergence between two likelihood functions to converge to zero at the r ...
We conduct an experiment where ten attendees of an open-air music festival are acting as Bluetooth probes. We then construct a parametric statistical model to estimate the total number of visible Bluetooth devices in the festival area. By comparing our est ...
Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011
Model specification is an integral part of any statistical inference problem. Several model selection techniques have been developed in order to determine which model is the best one among a list of possible candidates. Another way to deal with this questi ...
The last decade has seen max-stable processes emerge as a common tool for the statistical modeling of spatial extremes However, their application is complicated due to the unavailability of the multivariate density function and so likehhood-based methods r ...
Extreme climate events have been investigated by many researchers in recent decades, and statisticians too have developed statistical tools capable of dealing with them. Although extreme value theory has been extensively developed and used in modelling eve ...
Composite likelihoods are increasingly used in applications where the full likelihood is analytically unknown or computationally prohibitive. Although some frequentist properties of the maximum composite likelihood estimator are akin to those of the maximu ...
Academia Sinica, Institute of Statistical Science2012
We present a class of models that, via a simple construction, enables exact, incremental, non-parametric, polynomial-time, Bayesian inference of conditional measures. The approach relies upon creating a sequence of covers on the conditioning variable and m ...
