Spatial generalized linear mixed models (SGLMMs) are popular models for spatial data with a non-Gaussian response. Binomial SGLMMs with logit or probit link functions are often used to model spatially dependent binomial random variables. It is known that for independent binomial data, the robit regression model provides a more robust (against extreme observations) alternative to the more popula...

This study proposes a computational model of the discourse segments in lyrics to understand and to model the structure of lyrics. To test our hypothesis that discourse segmentations in lyrics strongly correlate with repeated patterns, we conduct the first large-scale corpus study on discourse segments in lyrics. Next, we propose the task to automatically identify segment boundaries in lyrics an...

In this paper a generic probabilistic framework for the unsupervised hierarchical clustering of large-scale sparse high-dimensional data collections is proposed. The framework is based on a hierarchical probabilistic mixture methodology. Two classes of models emerge from the analysis and these have been termed as symmetric and asymmetric models. For text data specifically both asymmetric and sy...

The smooth testing approach described in [2] has been used to develop a test of the distributional assumption for generalized linear models. Application of the test to help assess Poisson and logistic regression models is discussed. Power is compared to other common tests.

the work exposure conditions such as dust concentration, exposure time, use of respiratory protection devices and smoking status are effective to cause pulmonary function disorder. the objective of this study was prediction of pulmonary disorders in workers exposed to silica dust using artificial neural networks and logistic regression. a sample of 117 out of 150 workers employed in the stone c...

Cross-sectional studies are epidemiological design which can be considered as descriptive or analytical designs depending on the general objective. This is a quickly and economical allows to calculate prevalence of condition. Also, relationship temporality between exposition outcome being measured simultaneously unique period, not possible identify directionality in temporality. When there an a...