MāOri Economic Development - Glimpses from Statistical Sources

Statistical Learning from Multiple Information Sources

In intelligent information processing tasks such as pattern recognition and information retrieval (IR), probabilistic models are now widely used because they can represent ambiguities of observed data and are robust against noises. Parameters of probabilistic models are statistically estimated (learned) from given training data. However, when the training data contain an insufficient amount of ...

The Motivation and Development of MPAi, a Māori Pronunciation Aid

This paper outlines the motivation and development of a pronunciation aid (MPAi) for the Māori language, the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Māori is threatened and after a break in transmission the language is currently undergoing revitalization. The data for the aid has come from a corpus of 60 speakers (men and women). The language aid allows users to model their speech aga...

Glimpses upon Quasiconvex Analysis

We review various sorts of generalized convexity and we raise some questions about them. We stress the importance of some special subclasses of quasiconvex functions. Dedicated to Marc Attéia Résumé. Nous passons en revue quelques notions de convexité généralisée. Nous tentons de les relier et nous soulevons quelques questions. Nous soulignons l’importance de quelques classes particulières de f...

Glimpses of God's grace.

ooking back, the signs were there for several years. Grandma Blanche started misplacing her keys and wallet in her early 50s. Having lived through the Great Depression, my grandma would hide money around the house rather than have it all deposited in a bank. The problem was she would forget where she hid it. I can remember my mother going through every inch of Grandma’s house one day and collec...

Economic Development From the Perspective of Evolutionary Economic Theory