The Ising spin glass is a one-parameter exponential family model for binary data with quadratic sufficient statistic. In this paper, we show that given a single realization from this model, the maximum pseudolikelihood estimate (MPLE) of the natural parameter is √ aN -consistent at a point whenever the log-partition function has order aN in a neighborhood of that point. This gives consistency r...

introduction: in this study the evaluation of a platelet-based maximum penalized likelihood estimation (mple) for denoising spect images was performed and compared with other denoising methods such as wavelets or butterworth filtration. platelet-based mple factorization as a multiscale decomposition approach has been already proposed for better edges and surfaces representation due to poisson n...

We introduce a new method for attribute value selection, which is driven by the minimum description length principle. We demonstrate the viability of the approach on the Wisconsin breast cancer data set, show a working exa mple and evaluate the approach against earlier systems. Comparisons on different domains are also given. Empirical results show that our approach consistently outperforms com...

Theoretical analysis of structured learning methods has focused primarily on domains where the data consist of independent (albeit structured) examples. Although the statistical relational learning (SRL) community has recently developed many classification methods for graph and network domains, much of this work has focused on modeling domains where there is a single network for learning. For e...

Vector wave solutions are obtained for the propagation of beams of light in media having slow spatial variations of the gain, loss, or index of refraction. The formalism developed here is applicable to a wide range of problems, and an exa mple considered in detail is the propagation of off-axis beams in lenslike laser materials and optical waveguides. A procedure is also described for the diagn...

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1991; Moebus, 1992; Waterbury and Mya brEitbart ([email protected]) is Assistant Professor, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, USA. LukE r. thoMpson is Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Curtis a. suttLE is Professor, Departments of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Botany, and Microbiology & Immunol...

A detailed an alysis was mad e of th e response characteristic s of single cells in th e lat eral geniculate nucleus of the macaqu e monkey. Th e goa l was to understand how the se cells cont rib ute to th e proc essing of visual information. Dat a were an alyzed from a representative sa mple of 147 cells, whose respons es to eq ua l-energy spectra (prese nte d as diffuse flash es of monocbroma...

We present • study of the morphology •nd bulk physical properties of • Fontainebleau s•ndstone vi• an X ray tomographic •nalysis. Synchrotron-b•sed X ray tomographic techniques provide us with a high-resolution (7.5 •um), threedimensional digitized representation of the sandstone that leaves the s•mple intact and unaltered. To estimate • wide spectrum of bulk properties of the Fontainebleau s•n...