Despite their strengths, object-oriented metho ds (OOMs) and their supporting CASE to ols often do not produce models that are amenable to rigor ous semantic analysis. This is a direct result of their loosely de ned semantics. In this paper we outline our ongoing work on providing a semantic b ase for OOMs.

Understanding growth patterns at the metropolitan level is instructive for better planning and policy making on sustainable urban development. Using DMSP/OLS data from 1992 to 2013, this article aims to investigate growth patterns of major metropolitans in Mainland China from the aspects of intensification and expansion. We start by calibrating the DMSP/OLS data and selecting 45 major metropoli...

Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) is omnipresent in regression modeling. Occasionally Least Absolute Deviations (LAD) or other methods are used as an alternative when there are outliers. Although some data adaptive estimators have been proposed they are typically difficult to implement. In this note, we propose an easy to compute adaptive estimator which is simply a linear combination of OLS and LAD...

We compare the risk of ridge regression to a simple variant of ordinary least squares, in which one simply projects the data onto a finite dimensional subspace (as specified by a principal component analysis) and then performs an ordinary (un-regularized) least squares regression in this subspace. This note shows that the risk of this ordinary least squares method (PCA-OLS) is within a constant...