In this article, we propose to estimate the regression parameters in a semiparametric generalized linear model by moment estimating equations. These estimators are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal. We present two estimators of the nonparametric part, provide conditions for the existence and uniform consistency, and obtain faster rates of convergence under weaker assumptions.

A trie is a search tree scheme that employs the structure of search keys to organize information. Tries were originally devised as a means to represent a collection of records indexed by strings over a xed alphabet. Based on work by C.P. Wadsworth and others, R.H. Connelly and F.L. Morris generalized the concept to permit indexing by elements of an arbitrary monomorphic datatype. Here we go one...

Generalized planning is the task of generating a single solution that is valid for a set of planning problems. In this paper we show how to represent and compute generalized plans using procedural Domain Control Knowledge (DCK). We define a divide and conquer approach that first generates the procedural DCK solving a set of planning problems representative of certain subtasks and then compile i...

Abstract Double hierarchical generalized linear models (DHGLM) are a family of that flexible enough as to model hierarchically the mean and scale parameters. In Bayesian framework, fitting highly parameterized is challenging when this problem addressed using typical Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods due potential high correlation between different parameters effects in model. The integrat...

This project discusses the Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) model and its application for longitudinal data. For many longitudinal studies involving a discrete (count or categorical) response variable, and for some studies involving a continuous response variable, it is difficult to justify a fully parametric model for the data. In these circumstances, the method of GEE provides consistent...

Relational database systems do not eeectively support complex queries containing quantiiers (quanti-ed queries). Quantiied queries are becoming increasingly important in decision support applications in general, and health-care information systems in particular. Recently, it has been shown that generalized quantiiers provide an eeective way of expressing such queries naturally, and that general...

A multicanonical formalism is introduced to describe the statistical equilibrium of complex systems exhibiting a hierarchy of time and length scales, where the hierarchical structure is described as a set of nested "internal heat reservoirs" with fluctuating "temperatures." The probability distribution of states at small scales is written as an appropriate averaging of the large-scale distribut...

A generalized procedure of bisection of n–simplices is introduced, where the bisection point can be an (almost) arbitrary point at one of the longest edges. It is shown that nested sequences of simplices generated by successive generalized bisection converge to a singleton, and an exact bound of the convergence speed in terms of diameter reduction is given. For regular simplices, which mark the...