Profile inference revisited

Stylalgia Revisited: Clinical Profile and Management

Introduction: Eagle’s syndrome is a constellation of signs secondary to an elongated styloid process or due to mineralization of the stylohyoid or stylomandibular ligament or the posterior belly of the digastric muscle. The syndrome includes symptoms ranging from stylalgia (i.e. pain in the tonsillar fossa, pharyngeal or hyoid region) to foreign-body sensation in the throat, cervicofacial pain,...

Entropy and Inference, Revisited

We study properties of popular near–uniform (Dirichlet) priors for learning undersampled probability distributions on discrete nonmetric spaces and show that they lead to disastrous results. However, an Occam–style phase space argument expands the priors into their infinite mixture and resolves most of the observed problems. This leads to a surprisingly good estimator of entropies of discrete d...

Semiparametric Likelihood Ratio Inference Revisited

Semiparametric Likelihood Ratio Inference Revisited

2000 We extend the Semiparametric Likelihood Ratio Theorem of Murphy and Van del' Vaart for one-dimensional to Euclidean paramet(;rs of auy dimension. The as:VIrlptotic distribution of the likelihood ratio statistic for testing a k-dimensional Euclidean paramet'"r is shown to be the usual under the null hypothesis. This result is useful not only for testing purposes but also in forming likeliho...

Profile Predictive Inference

Bayesian predictive inference analyzes a dataset to make predictions about new observations. When a model does not match the data, predictive accuracy su ers. We develop population empirical Bayes ( ), a hierarchical framework that explicitly models the empirical population distribution as part of Bayesian analysis. We introduce a new concept, the latent dataset, as a hierarchical variable and ...