In this note we consider several versions of the bootstrap and argue that it is helpful in explaining and thinking about such procedures to use an explicit representation of the random resampling process. To illustrate the point we give such explicit representations and use them to produce some results about bootstrapping linear models that are, apparently, not widely known. Among these are a d...

Article history: Received 14 November 2009 Received in revised form 29 April 2010 Accepted 6 May 2010

There are many reasons for the popular use of the isotropic or geometrically anisotropic covariance function and variogram in spatial statistics. A less known reason demonstrated in this paper is that an isotropic or geometrically anisotropic model would be the only choice in certain circumstances, for instance, when the underlying random field is smooth enough.

This paper proposes a new covariance matching based technique for blurred image PSF (point spread function) estimation. A patch based image degradation model is proposed for the covariance matching estimation framework. A robust covariance metric which is based on Riemannian manifold is adapted to measure the distance between covariance matrices. The optimal PSF is computed by minimizing the di...

In this work, we study a family of wireless channel simulation models called geometry-based stochastic channel models (GBSCMs). Compared to more complex ray-tracing simulation models, GBSCMs do not require an extensive characterization of the propagation environment to provide wireless channel realizations with adequate spatial and temporal statistics. The trade-off they achieve between the qua...

The goal of this experiment was to evaluate the role of cellular interactions postulated by the Hebbian, or covariance, hypothesis in the induction of receptive-field (RF) plasticity in the adult auditory cortex (ACx). This was accomplished by determining whether a "covariance treatment" (see below) was sufficient to induce RF plasticity without behavioral experiences that normally induce such ...