The original Kohonen's Self-Organizing Map model has been extended by several authors to incorporate an underlying probability distribution. These proposals assume mixtures of Gaussian probability densities. Here we present a new self-organizing model which is based on a mixture of multivariate Student-t components. This improves the robustness of the map against outliers, while it includes the...

This note presents the package AdMit (Ardia et al., 2008, 2009), an R implementation of the adaptive mixture of Student-t distributions (AdMit) procedure developed by Hoogerheide (2006); see also Hoogerheide et al. (2007); Hoogerheide and van Dijk (2008). The AdMit strategy consists of the construction of a mixture of Student-t distributions which approximates a target distribution of interest....

This paper deals with Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models under a multivariate student-t distribution for the structural shocks. Based on the solution algorithm of Klein (2000) and the gamma-normal representation of the t -distribution, the TaRB-MH algorithm of Chib and Ramamurthy (2010) is used to estimate the model. A technique for estimating the marginal likelihood of the DS...

Bayesian optimization has recently attracted the attention of the automatic machine learning community for its excellent results in hyperparameter tuning. BO is characterized by the sample efficiency with which it can optimize expensive black-box functions. The efficiency is achieved in a similar fashion to the learning to learn methods: surrogate models (typically in the form of Gaussian proce...

structural steel sections are mainly used in beams and columns of building frames. iran national steel industrialgroup is among the oldest and largest producers of beams in iran. it has two beam production lines, namely line630 and line 650. in this study, the mechanical properties of manufactured beams in these production lines werecompared. based on the t-test results, the elongation is signi...

As an automatic method of determining model complexity using the training data alone, Bayesian linear regression provides us a principled way to select hyperparameters. But one often needs approximation inference if distribution assumption is beyond Gaussian distribution. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian linear regression model with Student-t assumptions (BLRS), which can be inferred exactl...

although many researches have investigated the benefits of music in sport, few researches have studied the effect of music on movement recall. thus, this study aimed to identify the effect of motivational music on information recall during the performance of a wrestling skill sequence. 24 male athletes (mean age 21.6±0.9 yr, height 176.4±6.1 cm and weight 67.5±8.4) were trained in 30 skills of ...

T-algebra is an interactive learning environment for step-by-step solving of algebra problems in four areas of mathematics, including linear equations. To make the diagnosis of mistakes more complete and the program more intelligent we designed our own rule dialogue. Each solution step in T-algebra consists of three stages: selection of the transformation rule, marking the parts of expression, ...