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As a recursive algorithm, the particle filter requires initial samples to track a state vector. These initial samples must be generated from the received data and usually obey a complicated distribution. The Metropolis-Hastings (M-H) algorithm is used for ...
Ecologists and economists try to explain collective behavior in terms of competitive systems of selfish individuals with the ability to learn from the past. Statistical physicists have been investigating models which might contribute to the understanding o ...
We present a method for the sparse greedy approximation of Bayesian Gaussian process regression, featuring a novel heuristic for very fast forward selection. Our method is essentially as fast as an equivalent one which selects the "support" patterns at ran ...
I show how conditional Gaussians, whose means are conditioned by a random variable, can be estimated and their likelihoods computed. This is based upon how regular Gaussians have their own parameters and likelihood computed. After explaining how to estimat ...
3-D geological models are built with data collected in the field such as boreholes, geophysical measurements, pilot shafts or geological mapping. Unfortunately, these data are always limited in number. It implies that geological information is sparse and s ...
Model selection is commonly based on some variation of the BIC or minimum message length criteria, such as MML and MDL. In either case the criterion is split into two terms: one for the model (data code length/model complexity) and one for the data given t ...
The switching kinetics in ferroelectric thin films has been intensively studied during the past decade. It is widely accepted that this kinetics is basically governed by the dynamics of domain coalescence (the Kolmogorov-Avrami-Ishibashi model). This concl ...
The effects miniaturization has on microsystems and related fields are the central subject of this work. Physical phenomena we are used to in our conventionally sized world seldom work at smaller scales. Before attempting to design a microsystem or try to ...
The invention concerns a 5-aminolevulinic acid ester (I) soln. for producing a pharmaceutical prepn. useful for diagnosing and/or treating tissue and/or cell pathologies by local radiation exposure using radiation emitted by a light source energy followed, ...
This paper presents a method for constructing confidence intervals using the jackknife. Asymptotic expansions are used to assess and reduce the skewness. It is proved that, although the error in the coverage rate remains of order O(1/n) for two-sided inter ...
