Two categories of Confidence Measure (CM) approaches for Mandarin command word recognition, i.e., Likelihood Ratio Testing (LRT) based CM and Word Posterior Probability (WPP) based CM, are investigated in this paper. Both Equal Error Rate (EER) and Confidence Error Rate (CER) performances of these approaches are evaluated on two databases: A Mandarin telephone command word database for which a ...

Currently available methods for model selection used in phylogenetic analysis are based on an initial fixed-tree topology. Once a model is picked based on this topology, a rigorous search of the tree space is run under that model to find the maximum-likelihood estimate of the tree (topology and branch lengths) and the maximum-likelihood estimates of the model parameters. In this paper, we propo...

The genetic parameters and (co) variance components of body weight at birth (BW), weaning (WW) and six months of age (BW6) and average daily gain (ADG) pre and post-weaning of Afshari sheep were estimated using restricted maximum likelihood (REML) methodology and animal model implemented in DFREML software. The likelihood ratio test (LRT) was used to compare the models. Year of birth, age of mo...

ABSTRACT: The genotype × environment (G×E) interaction plays an essential role in phenotypic expression and can lead to difficulties genetic selection. Thus, the present study aimed estimate parameters compare different selection strategies context of mixed models for soybean breeding. For this, data referring evaluation 30 genotypes 10 environments, regarding grain yield trait, were used. vari...

In this paper, the physical phenomenology of electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors is reviewed for application to land mine detection and remediation. The response from time-domain EMI sensors is modeled as an exponential damping as a function of time, characterized by the initial magnitude and decay rate. Currently deployed EMI sensors that are used for the land mine detection process the re...

Speech coding has become one of the most essential techniques in telecommunications and in the multimedia infrastructure. Existing speech coding techniques are applicable only for stationary environment and degrade the speech quality. This paper proposes a novel speech coding technique with better speech quality through MCRA and modified MAP. Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) criterion is extensively ...

The recently introduced framework of universal inference provides a new approach to constructing hypothesis tests and confidence regions that are valid in finite samples do not rely on any specific regularity assumptions the underlying statistical model. At core methodology is split likelihood ratio statistic, which formed under data splitting compared cleverly selected critical value. As this ...

Individuals with skin of color (SOC) have increased epidermal melanin that protects against photocarcinogenesis but increases the risk vitamin D deficiency. Whether recommendations on photoprotection should differ for SOC is an important public health question, and few studies examined association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin [25(OH)D] levels in populations, particularly Asian individuals. W...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies answer questions about activation effects in populations of subjects. To begin with, this involves appropriate modeling of the fMRI data at the within-subject level. This is followed by extending the model to multiple subjects. There have been several attempts toward this extension, all of which have focused on inference on a single effect of intere...

Background/Aims: There is a growing interest regarding the effect of differential misclassification on power and type I error rate in genome-wide association studies. We present an extension of a previously published test statistic: the likelihood ratio test allowing for errors ( LRT AE ). This test uses double-sample information on a subset of individuals to increase power for genetic associat...