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We describe a sequential universal data compression procedure for binary tree sources that performs the \double mixture". Using a context tree, this method weights in an eecient recursive way the coding distributions corresponding to all bounded memory tree sources, and achieves a desirable coding distribution for tree sources with an unknown model and unknown parameters. Computational and stor...

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zs denotes the concatenation of a data zz and a string s, l(s) is the length of a string s, 0 < ps < 1 is a constant given to a string s if 0 < l(s) 5 D 1, ,Bs = 0 if 2(s) = D (D > 1: some integer), Q,(x;) is the product of the predicted probabilities over the time instances such that the string defined below is s. The CTW assumes that the source is some tree source: the probability of x1+1 E A...

The choice between weighting adjustments and imputation for handling missing survey data is generally straightforward: as a rule, weighting adjustments are used for total nonresponse and imputation is used for item nonresponses. There are, however, several situations where the choice is debatable. In general, these are situations of what might be termed partial nonresponse, where some data are ...

Alignment of time series is an important problem to solve in many scientific disciplines. In particular, temporal alignment of two or more subjects performing similar activities is a challenging problem due to the large temporal scale difference between human actions as well as the inter/intra subject variability. In this paper we present canonical time warping (CTW), an extension of canonical ...

Context tree weighting method is a universal compression algorithm for FSMX sources. Though we expect that it will have good compression ratio in practice, it is difficult to implement it and in many cases the implementation is only for estimating compression ratio. Though Willems and Tjalkens showed practical implementation using not block probabilities but conditional probabilities, it is use...