Multivariate Hawkes Processes (MHPs) are a class of point processes that can account for complex temporal dynamics among event sequences. In this work, we study the accuracy and computational efficiency of three class...
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Bayesian statistics has two common measures of central tendency of a posterior distribution: posterior means and Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimates. In this paper, we discuss a connection between MAP estimates and p...
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The problem of robust attack detection and prediction for networked control systems in the presence of outliers is discussed in this article. The conventional hidden Markov model (HMM) is trained to learn the system b...
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The problem of robust attack detection and prediction for networked control systems in the presence of outliers is discussed in this article. The conventional hidden Markov model (HMM) is trained to learn the system behavior (ie, transitions between different operating modes) in the nominal process. The HMM with time-varying transition probabilities is used to track the attack behavior in which the adversary triggers more hazard modes to hasten fatigue of control devices by injecting attack signals with random magnitude and frequency. For different operating modes, the observations are assumed to follow different multivariate Student'stdistributions instead of Gaussian distributions and thus address the robust estimation problem. The expectation maximization algorithm is used to estimate parameters. Finally, simulations are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Purpose This paper aims to investigate an identification strategy for the nonlinear state-space model (SSM) in the presence of an unknown output time-delay. The equations to estimate the unknown model parameters and o...
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Purpose This paper aims to investigate an identification strategy for the nonlinear state-space model (SSM) in the presence of an unknown output time-delay. The equations to estimate the unknown model parameters and output time-delay are derived simultaneously in the proposed strategy. Design/methodology/approach The unknown integer-valued time-delay is processed as a latent variable which is uniformly distributed in a priori known range. The estimations of the unknown time-delay and model parameters are both realized using the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, which has a good performance in dealing with latent variable issues. Moreover, the particle filter (PF) with an unknown time-delay is introduced to calculated the Q-function of the EM algorithm. Findings Although amounts of effective approaches for nonlinear SSM identification have been developed in the literature, the problem of time-delay is not considered in most of them. The time-delay is commonly existed in industrial scenario and it could cause extra difficulties for industrial process modeling. The problem of unknown output time-delay is considered in this paper, and the validity of the proposed approach is demonstrated through the numerical example and a two-link manipulator system. Originality/value The novel approach to identify the nonlinear SSM in the presence of an unknown output time-delay with EM algorithm is put forward in this work.
Smart card data provides a new perspective for estimating a metro passenger's path choice model in a large-scale urban rail transit network with multiple alternative paths between origin-destination pairs. However...
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Smart card data provides a new perspective for estimating a metro passenger's path choice model in a large-scale urban rail transit network with multiple alternative paths between origin-destination pairs. However, existing research does not consider correlations of path travel times among alternative paths when using smart card data for estimation purposes, leading to biased estimations. This paper proposes an approach to estimating the path choice model considering path travel time correlations. In particular, a simplified form of measuring path travel time correlations caused by shared links is proposed to improve estimation efficiency. Then a framework for a linking path choice model and smart card data is developed based on a Gaussian mixture model;an expectationmaximization-based estimation algorithm is also provided. Finally, taking the Guangzhou Metro in China as an example, the superiority of estimations based on smart card data considering correlations is observed in both statistical terms and predictions.
In this paper, we introduce a regression model where the response variable is reparameterized slashed Rayleigh (RSR) distributed and which is indexed by mean and precision parameters. The proposed regression model is ...
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In this paper, we introduce a regression model where the response variable is reparameterized slashed Rayleigh (RSR) distributed and which is indexed by mean and precision parameters. The proposed regression model is useful for situations where the variable of interest is continuous and restricted to the positive real line and is related to other variables through the mean and precision parameters. In addition, the RSR model has properties that its competitor distributions of the exponential family do not have. Estimation is performed by expectationmaximization (EM) and extensions. Furthermore, we discuss residuals and influence diagnostic tools. Finally, we also carry out two applications to real-world data that demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed model.
In this paper, we propose a generalization of the power series cure rate model for the number of competing causes related to the occurrence of the event of interest. The model includes distributions not yet used in th...
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In this paper, we propose a generalization of the power series cure rate model for the number of competing causes related to the occurrence of the event of interest. The model includes distributions not yet used in the cure rate models context, such as the Borel, Haight and Restricted Generalized Poisson distributions. The model is conveniently parameterized in terms of the cure rate. Maximum likelihood estimation based on the expectation maximization algorithm is discussed. A simulation study designed to assess some properties of the estimators is carried out, showing the good performance of the proposed estimation procedure in finite samples. Finally, an application to a bone marrow transplant data set is presented.
In survival trials with fixed trial length, the patient accrual rate has a significant impact on the sample size estimation or equivalently, on the power of trials. A larger sample size is required for the staggered p...
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In survival trials with fixed trial length, the patient accrual rate has a significant impact on the sample size estimation or equivalently, on the power of trials. A larger sample size is required for the staggered patient entry. During enrollment, the patient accrual rate changes with the recruitment publicity effect, disease incidence and many other factors and fluctuations of the accrual rate occur frequently. However, the existing accrual models are either over-simplified for the constant rate assumption or complicated in calculation for the subdivision of the accrual period. A more flexible accrual model is required to represent the fluctuant patient accrual rate for accurate sample size estimation. In this paper, inspired by the flexibility of the Gaussian mixture distribution in approximating continuous densities, we propose the truncated Gaussian mixture distribution accrual model to represent different variations of accrual rate by different parameter configurations. The sample size calculation formula and the parameter setting of the proposed accrual model are discussed further.
For a public company, pricing and hedging models of options and equity–linked life insurance products have been sufficiently developed. However, for a private company, because of unobserved prices, pricing and hedgin...
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To overcome the limitations of conventional speech enhancement methods, such as inaccurate voice activity detector(VAD) and noise estimation, a novel speech enhancement algorithm based on the approximate message passi...
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To overcome the limitations of conventional speech enhancement methods, such as inaccurate voice activity detector(VAD) and noise estimation, a novel speech enhancement algorithm based on the approximate message passing(AMP) is adopted. AMP exploits the difference between speech and noise sparsity to remove or mute the noise from the corrupted speech. The AMP algorithm is adopted to reconstruct the clean speech efficiently for speech enhancement. More specifically, the prior probability distribution of speech sparsity coefficient is characterized by Gaussian-model, and the hyper-parameters of the prior model are excellently learned by expectationmaximization(EM) algorithm. We utilize the k-nearest neighbor(k-NN) algorithm to learn the sparsity with the fact that the speech coefficients between adjacent frames are correlated. In addition, computational simulations are used to validate the proposed algorithm, which achieves better speech enhancement performance than other four baseline methods-Wiener filtering, subspace pursuit(SP), distributed sparsity adaptive matching pursuit(DSAMP), and expectation-maximization Gaussian-model approximate message passing(EM-GAMP) under different compression ratios and a wide range of signal to noise ratios(SNRs).
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