The articulatory range of a speaker has previously been estimated by the shape formed by first and second formant measurements of produced vowels. In a majority of the currently available metrics, formant frequency measurements are reduced to a single estimate for a condition, which has adverse consequences for subsequent statistical testing. Other metrics provide estimates of size of vowel art...

The main goal of this paper is to improve the performance of the Fireworks Algorithm (FWA). To improve the performance of the FWA we propose three modifications: the first modification is to change the stopping criteria, this is to say, previously, the number of function evaluations was utilized as a stopping criteria, and we decided to change this to specify a particular number of iterations; ...

The apparatus used in the experiment which is the subject of this communication is related to that named after Puccianti.' It consists essentially of identical tubes about 85 cm. long with optically plane parallel ends placed in the arms of an interferometer and filled to the same pressure with hydrogen. A powerful discharge was passed through one of the tubes while "white-light" fringes from a...

Algebraically, principal components can be defined as the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a covariance or correlation matrix, but they are statistically meaningful as successive projections of the multivariate data in the direction of maximal variability. An attractive alternative in robust principal component analysis is to replace the classical variability measure, i.e. variance, by a robust ...

In this paper, we model price dispersion effects in over-the-counter (OTC) markets to show that in the presence of inventory risk for dealers and search costs for investors, traded prices may deviate from the expected market valuation of an asset. We interpret this deviation as a liquidity effect and develop a new liquidity measure quantifying the price dispersion in the context of the US corpo...

We present an analysis of the variations seen in the dispersion measures (DMs) of 20 millisecond pulsars observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project. We carry out a statistically rigorous structure function analysis for each pulsar and show that the variations seen for most pulsars are consistent with those expected for an interstellar medium characterised by a Kolmogorov turbule...

Single-arm three wave interferometer for measuring dispersion in short lengths of fiber Michael Anthony Galle Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2007 A simple fiber-based single-arm spectral interferometer to measure the dispersion parameter in short lengths of fiber (< 50 cm) with a measurement precision of 0.0001 ps/nm is d...

I measure price dispersion among differentiated retail gasoline sellers and study the relationship between dispersion and the local competitive environment. Significant price dispersion exists even after controlling for differences in station characteristics, and price differences between sellers change frequently. The extent of price dispersion is related to the density of local competition, b...

We propose and discuss two information-based measures of statistical dispersion of positive continuous random variables: the entropy-based dispersion and Fisher information-based dispersion. Although standard deviation is the most frequently employed dispersion measure, we show, that it is not well suited to quantify some aspects that are often expected intuitively, such as the degree of random...

We describe a Yb-fiber-based laser comb, with a focus on the relationship between the net-cavity dispersion and frequency noise on the comb. While tuning the net-cavity dispersion from anomalous to normal, we measure the relative intensity noise, offset frequency (f(CEO)) linewidth, and the resulting frequency noise spectrum on the f(CEO). We find that the laser operating at zero net-cavity dis...