In this article, various issues related to the implementation of the usual Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) are critically examined in the context of modelling for finite populations. A suitable design-based approximation to the BIC is proposed in order to avoid the derivation of the exact likelihood of the sample which is often very complex in a finite population sampling. The approximatio...

The crystal structure of the title compound, C(12)H(11)NO(2), represents a new ortho-rhom-bic polymorph II of the previously reported ortho-rhom-bic form I [Zhang et al. (2009 ▶) Acta Cryst. E65, o3160]. In polymorph II, the six-membered rings form a dihedral angle of 13.8 (1)° [71.6 (1)° in I], and O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds link mol-ecules into chains along [100], whereas the crystal structure of I...

Model selection is commonly based on some variation of the BIC or minimum message length criteria, such as MML and MDL. In either case the criterion is split into two terms: one for the model (data code length/model complexity) and one for the data given the model (message length/data likelihood). For problems such as change detection, unsupervised segmentation or data clustering it is common p...

A new singer identification system is presented in this thesis. The system is based on the idea of using only the vocal segments of a song to build the model of a particular singer. The most important contribution of the technique is the way these vocal segments are located. The borders between vocal and instrumental parts are first detected with the Bayesian Information Criterion(BIC), which i...

Prostate cancer growth depends on androgens. Synthetic antiandrogens are used in the cancer treatment. However, antiandrogens, such as bicalutamide (BIC), have a mixed agonist/antagonist activity. Here we compare the antiandrogenic capacity of BIC to a new antiandrogen, MDV3100 (MDV) or Enzalutamide™. By reconstitution of a hormone-regulated enhancer in Xenopus oocytes we show that both antagon...

We examine asymptotic approximations for the marginal likelihood of incomplete data given a Bayesian network. We consider the Laplace approximation and the less accurate but more efficient BIC/M DL approximation. We also consider approximations proposed by Draper (1993) and Cheeseman and Stutz ( 1995). These approximations are as efficient as BIC/M DL, but their accuracy has not been studied in...

UNLABELLED Bimodal patterns of expression have recently been shown to be useful not only in prioritizing genes that distinguish phenotypes, but also in prioritizing network models that correlate with proteomic evidence. In particular, subgroups of strongly coexpressed gene pairs result in an increased variance of the correlation distribution. This variance, a measure of association between sets...

This paper discusses a set of modifications regarding the use of the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) for the speaker diarization task. We focus on the specific variant of the BIC that deploys models of equal or roughly equal statistical complexity under partitions of different number of speakers and we examine three modifications. Firstly, we investigate a way to deal with the permutation-...