The interaction of arbitrary three-dimensional light beams with optical elements is described by the generalized Jones calculus, which has been formally proposed recently [Azzam, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28, 2279 (2011)]. In this work we obtain the parametric expression of the 3×3 differential generalized Jones matrix (dGJM) for arbitrary optical media assuming transverse light waves. The dGJM is int...

Likert items and scales are often used in human subject studies to measure subjective responses of subjects to the treatment levels. In the field of human-robot interaction (HRI), with few widely accepted quantitative metrics, researchers often rely on Likert items and scales to evaluate their systems. However, there is a debate on what is the best statistical method to evaluate the differences...

Cluster-based permutation tests are widely used in neuroscience studies for the analysis of high-dimensional electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potential (ERP) data as it may address multiple comparison problem without reducing statistical power. However, classical cluster-based relies on parametric t-tests, whose assumptions not be verified case non-normality distribution alternati...

abstract the aim of this paper is to investigate annual and seasonal precipitation trends of some selective meteorological stations of central region in iran using non-parametric methods. two non-parametric methods including mann-kendall and sen's estimator slope methods were used here to analyze the seasonal and annual trends of precipitation data. some 48 meteorological stations in centr...

evaluation of river discharges trends is very important for water resources management and design of irrigation and drainage networks. in this research, annual, seasonal and monthly trends of maroon river discharge were evaluated using the mann-kendall and sen’s slope estimator non-parametric tests and the regression analysis parametric test. for this purpose, river discharge data from five h...

We introduce a family of multiscale, orientation-selective, non-parametric features (“ranklets”) modelled on Haar wavelets. We clarify their relation to the Wilcoxon ranksum test and the rank transform and provide an efficient scheme for computation based on the Mann-Whitney statistics. Finally, we show that ranklets outperform other rank features, Haar wavelets, SNoW and linear SVMs (based on ...