Smoke nuisance abatement

When smoke alarms are a nuisance: a call to action.

T here is a clear analogy between smoke detectors and child car seats. Both technologies have been enthusiastically embraced, and their widespread distribution has saved many thousands of lives. However, the issue of car seat misuse has led to a reevaluation of engineering and educational approaches for child occupant protection. It is time for a similar comprehensive reevaluation of smoke dete...

Neighborhoods as Nuisance

Neighborhoods as Nuisance Parameters

Deviations from the center within a robust neighborhood may naturally be considered an innnite dimensional nuisance parameter. Thus, in principle, the semiparametric method may be tried, which is to compute the scores function for the main parameter minus its orthogonal projection on the closed linear tangent space for the nuisance parameter, and then rescale for Fisher consistency. We derive s...

Weighted Nuisance Attribute Projection

Nuisance attribute projection (NAP) has become a common method for compensation of channel effects, session variation, speaker variation, and general mismatch in speaker recognition. NAP uses an orthogonal projection to remove a nuisance subspace from a larger expansion space that contains the speaker information. Training the NAP subspace is based on optimizing pairwise distances to reduce int...

Statistics: nuisance - tool - necessity?

Dear Readers and Authors, One of an editor's duties is to do the final proofreading of a manuscript. I have found that errors in the statistical evaluation of data are the most frequent reason for corrections at that stage. In this respect, one could say that statistics is a nuisance, for me at least. I also remember thinking statistical evaluation was a nuisance early in my scientific career, ...