Standard forecasting criteria like the mean square error (MSE) compare point forecasts or a location parameter of the forecasting distribution with actual observations. Such criteria are less suited to comparing forecasts of volatile time series. Therefore we use the average predictive ordinate (APOC) criterion which evaluates the ordinate of the predictive distribution. Using the comparison to...

A paradigm independent multistage strategy based on the Unsupervised Fuzzy Clustering Analysis (UFCA) and its potential for fMRI data analysis are presented. The influence of the fuzziness index is studied using Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) methodology and an interval of choice, around the widely used value 2, is shown to yield the best performance. The ill-balanced data problem is ...

Noise and artifacts are inherent contaminating components and are particularly present in Holter electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring. The presence of noise is even more significant in long-term monitoring (LTM) recordings, as these are collected for several days in patients following their daily activities; hence, strong artifact components can temporarily impair the clinical measurements from t...

The home advantage is one of the best established phenomena in sports (Courneya & Carron, 1992), and crowd noise has been suggested as one of its determinants (Nevill & Holder, 1999). However, the psychological processes that mediate crowd noise influence and its contribution to the home advantage are still unclear. We propose that crowd noise correlates with the criteria referees have to judge...

This paper introduces a new speech enhancement method using soft thresholding with a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) based hybrid algorithm. Soft thresholding for DCT-enhancement is a powerful method for enhancing the noisy speech signal in a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios (S Rs). However, due to the thresholding criteria a significant amount of nois...

To evaluate the quality of available evidence on the effects of environmental noise exposure on sleep a systematic review was conducted. The databases PSYCINFO, PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Web of Science and the TNO Repository were searched for non-laboratory studies on the effects of environmental noise on sleep with measured or predicted noise levels and published in or after the year 200...