Alexander Mann

The Equivalence between Mann and Implicit Mann Iterations

We shall prove the equivalence bewteen the convergences of Mann and implicit Mann iterations dealing with various classes of non-Lipschitzian operators.

The Mann - Grubbs Method

Publications for Graham Mann

De Paoli-Iseppi, R., Johansson, P., Menzies, A., Dias, K., Pupo, G., Kakavand, H., Wilmott, J., Mann, G., Hayward, N., Dinger, M., Long, G., Scolyer, R. (2016). Comparison of whole-exome sequencing of matched fresh and formalin fixed paraffin embedded melanoma tumours: implications for clinical decision making. Pathology, 48(3), 261-266. ...

Remembering Bill Mann

William C. Mann passed away on August 13, 2004, after a long struggle with leukemia. He is known to readers of Computational Linguistics as a keen supporter and past president (1987) of ACL, a pioneer in the development of text generation as a field of research in computational linguistics, the originator of rhetorical structure theory (RST) and dialogue game theory (DGT), and the developer (to...

Mann-Kendall for autocorrelated data

The Mann-Kendall test is a commonly-used nonparametric test for time trend. However, the standard P-values obtained from it are based on an assumption of independence between observations (since the theory is that of the Kendall correlation). However, observations in time series are often autocorrelated: knowing that one observation is larger than the mean may tell you that the next observation...