This paper addresses model-based analysis of string instrument sounds. In particular, it reviews the application of autoregressive (AR) modeling to sound analysis/synthesis purposes. Moreover, a frequency-zooming autoregressive moving average (FZ-ARMA) modeling scheme is described. The performance of the FZ-ARMA method on modeling the modal behavior of isolated groups of resonance frequencies i...

This paper describes a new method for generating stationary integervalued time series from renewal processes. We prove that if the lifetime distribution of renewal processes is nonlattice and the probability generating function is rational, then the generated time series satisfy causal and invertible ARMA type stochastic difference equations. The result provides an easy method for generating in...

Recently, there are much works on developing models suitable for analyzing the volatility of a discrete-time process. Within the framework of Auto-Regressive Moving-Average (ARMA) processes, we derive a necessary and sufficient condition for the kernel to be non-negative. This condition is in terms of the generating function of the ARMA kernel which has a simple form. We discuss some useful con...

A powerful parametric spectral estimation technique, 2D-ARMA (Auto Regressive Moving Average) modeling, has been applied to contrast transfer function (CTF) detection in electron microscopy. Parametric techniques such as AR (auto regressive) and ARMA models allow a more exact determination of the CTF than traditional methods based only on the Fourier Transform (FT). Previous works revealed that...

This paper presents an improvement of hybrid of nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous input (NARX) and autoregressive moving average (ARMA) for long-term machine state forecasting based on vibration data. In this study, vibration data is considered as a combination of two components which are deterministic data and error. The deterministic component may describe the degradation index of machi...

Time-series Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) models were employed to model tree crown profiles for two California hardwood species (blue oak and interior live oak). There are three major components of these models: a polynomial trend, an ARMA model, and unaccounted for variation. The polynomial trend was used to achieve a stationary series. For these crown profiles, the use of a quadratic t...

The problem we tackle concerns forecasting time series in financial markets. AutoRegressive Moving-Average (ARMA) methods and computational intelligence have also been used to tackle this problem. We propose a novel method for time series forecasting based on a hybrid combination of ARMA and Gene Expression Programming (GEP) induced models. Time series from financial domains often encapsulate d...

BACKGROUND Aminoglycosides are a group of antimicrobial agents still the most commonly used in the treatment of life-threatening bacterial infections in human and animals. The emergence and spread of 16S rRNA methylases, which confer high-level resistance to the majority of clinically relevant aminoglycosides, constitute a major public health concern. OBJECTIVES Our goal was to evaluate the d...

In this paper, a new method of estimation of the magnitude square coherence function (MSC) by an ARMA model is proposed. The estimation is achieved by modeling the periodogram estimate of the MSC and the ARMA model has been realized by the pole-zero decomposition property of the group delay function (GDF). Its performance has been found to be superior to that of the periodogram MSC estimate in ...

Objectives To investigate the context of the ribosomal RNA methyltransferase gene armA in carbapenem-resistant global clone 2 (GC2) Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Singapore. Methods Antibiotic resistance was determined using disc diffusion; PCR was used to identify resistance genes. Whole genome sequences were determined and contigs were assembled and ordered using PCR. Resistance regi...