Data variability can be important in microarray data analysis. Thus, when clustering gene expression profiles, it could be judicious to make use of repeated data. In this paper, the problem of analysing repeated data in the model-based cluster analysis context is considered. Linear mixed models are chosen to take into account data variability and mixture of these models are considered. This lea...

Several experiments were conducted in order to investigate the usefulness of mixture of experts approach to an online internet system assisting in real estate appraisal. All experiments were performed using real-world datasets taken from a cadastral system. The analysis of the results was performed using statistical methodology including nonparametric tests followed by post-hoc procedures desig...

In this paper we introduce objective proper prior distributions for hypothesis testing and model selection based on measures of divergence between the competing models; we call them divergence based (DB) priors. DB priors have simple forms and desirable properties, like information (finite sample) consistency; often, they are similar to other existing proposals like the intrinsic priors; moreov...

Linear mixture models are a simple and effective technique for performing domain adaptation of translation models in statistical MT. In this paper, we identify and correct two weaknesses of this method. First, we show that standard maximumlikelihood weights are biased toward large corpora, and that a straightforward preprocessing step that down-samples phrase tables can be used to counter this ...

Non-parametric maximum likelihood estimators of relative risk have been proposed as an alternative to empirical Bayes or full Bayes approaches to disease mapping. They have the advantage of being relatively simple, the EM algorithm assures convergence and area classi5cation is straightforward. However, they do not take into account spatial autocorrelation and have higher mean square error when ...

While null space based linear discriminant analysis (NLDA) obtains a good discriminant performance, the ability easily suffers from an implicit assumption of Gaussian model with same covariance each class. Meanwhile, mixture model discriminant analysis, which is a good way for processing issues on multiple subclasses in each class, depends on human experience on the number of subclasses and has...

Unsupervised clustering of documents is challenging because documents can conceivably be divided across multiple dimensions. Motivated by prior work incorporating expressive features into unsupervised generative models, this paper presents an unsupervised model for categorizing textual data which is capable of utilizing arbitrary features over a large context. Utilizing locally normalized log-l...

This paper investigates the problem of verifying the pronunciations of phonemes from continuous utterances collected from impaired children speakers engaged in a speech therapy session. A new pronunciation verification (PV) approach based on the subspace Gaussian mixture model (SGMM) is presented. A single SGMM is trained from test utterances collected from impaired and unimpaired speakers. PV ...

Identical twins pose a great challenge to face recognition systems due to their similar appearance. Nevertheless, even though twins may look alike, we believe they speak differently. Hence we propose to use their voice patterns to distinguish between twins. Voice is a natural signal to produce, and it is a combination of physiological and behavioral biometrics, therefore it is suitable for twin...

The separation of a complex mixture based solely on second-order statistics can be achieved using the Strong Uncorrelating Transform (SUT) if and only if all sources have distinct circularity coefficients. However, in most problems we do not know the circularity coefficients, and they must be estimated from observed data. In this work, we propose a detector, based on the generalized likelihood ...