This paper aims to enhance the accuracy and reliability of ship identification processes by preprocessing noise and outliers in the collected data. We propose a preprocessing method using the Expectation-Maximization ...
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This paper aims to enhance the accuracy and reliability of ship identification processes by preprocessing noise and outliers in the collected data. We propose a preprocessing method using the Expectation-Maximization (em) algorithm and the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) applied to ship trajectory and motion data, demonstrating significant advancements over existing methodologies. We introduce a novel application of one-dimensional Student's t-distributions with independent parameters by Q and R (measured noise covariance), enabling more precise modeling of sensor noise and outliers, thus improving data processing robustness. Our algorithm also incorporates adaptive learning capabilities, allowing adjustments to various environmental conditions, which enhances noise and outlier handling and broadens applicability across real-world scenarios. Experimental results indicate that our methods significantly improve data accuracy and ship identification reliability, underscoring their practical significance. These techniques provide robust technical support for accurate ship motion information and have considerable potential for maritime identification applications.
A new robust stochastic volatility (SV) model having Student-t marginals is proposed. Our process is defined through a linear normal regression model driven by a latent gamma process that controls temporal dependence....
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A new robust stochastic volatility (SV) model having Student-t marginals is proposed. Our process is defined through a linear normal regression model driven by a latent gamma process that controls temporal dependence. This gamma process is strategically chosen to enable us to find an explicit expression for the pairwise joint density function of the Student-t response process. With this at hand, we propose a composite likelihood (CL) based inference for our model, which can be straightforwardly implemented with a low computational cost. This is a remarkable feature of our Student-t process over existing SV models in the literature that involve computationally heavy algorithms for estimating parameters. Aiming at a precise estimation of the parameters related to the latent process, we propose a CL expectation-maximization algorithm and discuss a bootstrap approach to obtain standard errors. The finite-sample performance of our CL methods is assessed through Monte Carlo simulations. The methodology is motivated by an empirical application in the financial market. We analyze the relationship, across multiple time periods, between various US sector Exchange-Traded Funds returns and individual companies' stock price returns based on our novel Student-t model. This relationship is further utilized in selecting optimal financial portfolios. Generalizations of the Student-t SV model are also proposed.
This paper explores the question of the choice of whether to use a joint posterior or a marginal posterior as basis for analysis with respect to various parameters of interest. It turns out that in the one-way analysi...
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This paper explores the question of the choice of whether to use a joint posterior or a marginal posterior as basis for analysis with respect to various parameters of interest. It turns out that in the one-way analysis of variance situation there is an optimal choice. Connections with empirical Bayes estimation is stressed as well as the use of the em-algorithm. We demonstrate that for the latter, care must be taken with the choice of parameters to be declared "missing", for a wrong choice could lead to inconsistent estimators or estimators with poor mean-square behaviour. The discussion is in the context of one-way analysis of variance. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Scale mixtures of normal (SMN) distributions are used for modeling symmetric data. Members of this family have appealing properties such as robust estimates, easy number generation, and efficient computation of the ML...
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Scale mixtures of normal (SMN) distributions are used for modeling symmetric data. Members of this family have appealing properties such as robust estimates, easy number generation, and efficient computation of the ML estimates via the em-algorithm. The Birnbaum-Saunders (BS) distribution is a positively skewed model that is related to the normal distribution and has received considerable attention. We introduce a type of BS distributions based on SMN models, produce a lifetime analysis, develop the em-algorithm for ML estimation of parameters, and illustrate the obtained results with real data showing the robustness of the estimation procedure. Birnbaum-Saunders distribution, em-algorithm, kurtosis, maximum likelihood methods, robust estimation, scale mixtures of normal distributions.
Ibrahim (1990) used the em-algorithm to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of the regression parameters in generalized linear models with partially missing covariates. The technique was termed em by the method of wei...
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Ibrahim (1990) used the em-algorithm to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of the regression parameters in generalized linear models with partially missing covariates. The technique was termed em by the method of weights. In this paper, we generalize this technique to Cox regression analysis with missing values in the covariates. We specify a full model letting the unobserved covariate values be random and then maximize the observed likelihood. The asymptotic covariance matrix is estimated by the inverse information matrix. The missing data are allowed to be missing at random but also the nonignorable non-response situation may in principle be considered. Simulation studies indicate that the proposed method is more efficient than the method suggested by Paik & Tsai (1997). We apply the procedure to a clinical trials example with six covariates,vith three of them having missing values.
It is shown that both the missing value principle (MVP) of Orchard and Woodbury (1972) and the em-algorithm of Dempster, Laird and Rubin (1972) yield a unique predictor of the population total, under a superpopulation...
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It is shown that both the missing value principle (MVP) of Orchard and Woodbury (1972) and the em-algorithm of Dempster, Laird and Rubin (1972) yield a unique predictor of the population total, under a superpopulation multinormal model. The predictor obtained is the maximum likelihood predictor introduced by Royal (1976).
We consider tied survival data based on Cox proportional regression model. The standard approaches are the Breslow and Efron approximations and various so called exact methods. All these methods lead to biased estimat...
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We consider tied survival data based on Cox proportional regression model. The standard approaches are the Breslow and Efron approximations and various so called exact methods. All these methods lead to biased estimates when the true underlying model is in fact a Cox model. In this paper we review the methods and suggest a new method based on the missing-data principle using em-algorithm that leads to a score equation that can be solved directly. This score has mean zero. We also show that all the considered methods have the same asymptotic properties and that there is no loss of asymptotic efficiency when the tie sizes are bounded or even converge to infinity at a given rate. A simulation study is conducted to compare the finite sample properties of the methods.
Leaf area index (LAI) is a biophysical variable that is related to atmosphere-biosphere exchange of CO2. One way to obtain LAI value is by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) biophysical products...
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Leaf area index (LAI) is a biophysical variable that is related to atmosphere-biosphere exchange of CO2. One way to obtain LAI value is by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) biophysical products (LAI MODIS). The LAI MODIS has been used to improve the physiological principles predicting growth (3-PG) model within a Bayesian Network (BN) set-up. The MODIS time series, however, contains gaps caused by persistent clouds, cloud contamination, and other retrieval problems. We therefore formulated the em-algorithm to estimate the missing MODIS LAI values. The em-algorithm is applied to three different cases: successive and not successive two winter seasons, and not successive missing MODIS LAI during the time study of 26 successive months at which the performance of the BN is assessed. Results show that the MODIS LAI is estimated such that the maximum value of the mean absolute error between the original MODIS LAI and the estimated MODIS LAI by em-algorithm is 0.16. This is a low value, and shows the success of our approach. Moreover, the BN output improves when the em-algorithm is carried out to estimate the inconsecutive missing MODIS LAI such that the root mean square error reduces from 1.57 to 1.49. We conclude that the em-algorithm within a BN can handle the missing MODIS LAI values and that it improves estimation of the LAI. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Spatial Statistics 2011
A modification of the central limit theorem indicates that for a stationary or asymptotically stationary random process, its Fourier coefficients are independent complex Gaussian random variables [1]. We apply this id...
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(纸本)9781424421831
A modification of the central limit theorem indicates that for a stationary or asymptotically stationary random process, its Fourier coefficients are independent complex Gaussian random variables [1]. We apply this idea in the short time Fourier transform, where most process has the asymptotic stationary property in short time sense. The estimated parameters of the complex Gaussian distribution can be used in the feature extraction or the plug-in hypothesis test for recognition. The problem becomes to estimate the parameters of the complex Gaussian. The windowed short time Fourier coefficients are not simple complex Gaussian but contaminated Gaussian, which means we need to estimate the parameters of mixture Gaussian. The em-algorithm could estimate the parameters directly but the M-step is still complicate. Recasting the contaminated Gaussian as a finite mixture Gaussian model, we can estimated the mean vector and covariance matrix for each time-frequency bin. Estimate the parameters of a mixture high-dimension joint Gaussian distribution with high accuracy and low computation cost shows a good way to solve the problem of distribution estimation. With the estimated distribution, we can create a statistical model for recognition. This method is examined with a mixture 2 dimension joint Gaussian distribution and the simulation results are discussed with good performance. The convergence preserved by the em-algorithm and the convergence rate is examined too.
Modern infocommunication networks are developing very intensively, the structure of networks and the nature of applications are changing, which leads to the need for new approaches to research the parameters of their ...
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(纸本)9781728135649
Modern infocommunication networks are developing very intensively, the structure of networks and the nature of applications are changing, which leads to the need for new approaches to research the parameters of their functioning. The paper proposes the solution to the problem of approximating an arbitrary probability density in the G/G/1 system using hyperexponential distributions. Moreover, to determine the parameters of the probability density of the hyperexponential distribution, it is proposed to use the emalgorithm. An example of approximation by a system of type H-2/D-2/1 of a real implementation of IP network traffic is given.
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