We discuss in this paper Sche e’s method for constructing simultaneous con!dence intervals which hold for all linear combinations of the parameters subject to the weight vector being restricted to a convex cone. c © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

We consider a data mining problem in a large collection of unstructured texts based on association rules over subwords of texts. A two-words association pattern is an expression such as (TATA, 30, AGGAGGT)) C that expresses a rule that if a text contains a subword TATA followed by another subword AGGAGGT with distance no more than 30 letters then a property C will hold with high probability. Th...

We consider the problem of comparing predictive intervals for a future observation via their expected lengths at a given con ̄dence level. A higher order asymptotic theory is developed. This yields an explicit formula for expected length comparison and associated admissibility results. Illustrative examples are given.

To compare several promising product designs manufacturers must measure their performance under multiple environmental conditions In many applications a product design is considered to be seriously awed if its performance is poor for any level of the environmental factor For example if a particular automobile battery design does not function well under temperature extremes then a manufacturer m...

From 21.03.04 to 26.03.04, the Dagstuhl Seminar 04131 Geometric Properties from Incomplete Data was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar ...

The capture± recapture method is applied to estimate the population size of a target population based on ascertainment data in epidemiological applications. We generalize the three-list case of Chao & Tsay (1998) to situations where more than three lists are available. An estimation procedure is presented using the concept of sample coverage, which can be interpreted as a measure of overlap inf...

We describe a software tool for performing automatically veri ed arithmetic operations on independent operands when the operands are intervals, or probability distribution functions, or one operand is an interval and the other is a distribution. Intervals and distributions are expressed using the same technique, so the algorithms do not need to distinguish between intervals and distributions in...

—Methods of detecting and locating nuclear radioactive targets via wireless sensor networks (WSN) are proposed in this paper. In real applications, a nuclear radioactive target can be interpreted either as a hidden nuclear weapon held by nuclear terrorists or as a leak of nuclear radioactive materials at a unit of nuclear power stations. Assume a WSN is composed of radiation detectors deployed ...

This paper presents a novel approach to using con dence scores for word graph rescoring. For each word in the system's vocabulary, we computed the probability that the observation is correct given its acoustic score. Afterwards, we used these probabilities for rescoring word graphs outputted by the recognizer. We will present some implementation details as well as accuracy improvements obtained...

We propose a con…dence set for the subsets of parameters under partially identi…ed models characterized by moment inequalities. The subvector inference is based on the speci…cation testing of Guggenberger, Hahn, and Kim (2006) who discuss the dual characterization between the speci…cation testing of the moment inequalities and the multi-dimensional one-sided tests. We exploit the idea that a sp...