Classical Volterra and Wiener theory of nonlinear systems does not address the problem of noisy measurements in system identification. This issue is treated in the present part of the report. We first show how to incorporate the implicit estimation technique for Volterra and Wiener series described in Part I into the framework of regularised estimation without giving up the orthogonality proper...

The limiting spectral distribution of large sample covariance matrices is derived under dependence conditions. As applications, we obtain the limiting spectral distributions of Spearman’s rank correlation matrices, sample correlation matrices, sample covariance matrices from finite populations, and sample covariance matrices from causal AR(1) models.

Recent research has pointed to the ubiquity and abundance of between-generation epigenetic inheritance. This research has implications for assessing disease risk and the responses to ecological stresses and also for understanding evolutionary dynamics. An important step toward a general evaluation of these implications is the identification and estimation of the amount of heritable, epigenetic ...

Spreadsheets are the most popular live programming environments, but they are also notoriously fault-prone. One reason for this is that users actively rely on copy-paste to make up for the lack of abstraction mechanisms. Adding abstraction however, introduces indirection and thus cognitive distance. In this paper we propose an alternative: copy-paste tracking. Tracking copies that spreadsheet u...