This report shows that the deterministic-input noisy-AND (DINA) model is a special case of more general compensatory diagnostic models by means of a reparameterization of the skill space and the design (Q-) matrix of item by skills associations. This reparameterization produces a compensatory model that is equivalent to the (conjunctive) DINA model, and is valid for all types of complex structu...

Masters Candidate, Michele Barry, has successfully defended and made the required modifications to the text of the master's thesis for the M.S. during this Spring Semester 2016. THESIS COMMITTEE iv Acknowledgments I would like to express my sincere thanks to my advisor, Dr. Michael Vigorito, for his wisdom and guidance. His support has given me the opportunity to complete research in an area of...

In the design of maximally decimated lter banks, conventional practice is to use Johnston lters at both the analysis and synthesis ends. This paper proposes a two-step procedure: First, select suitable Johnston lters for the analysis side for good coding of the input; then design the synthesis lters to optimize the signal to reconstructed noise ratio SNR. A detailed example shows that one can d...

1.1 The multidimensional space One of the leading models of face recognition is the multidimensional space (MDS) model proposed by Valentine (1991a) which suggests that faces are encoded as points in a metaphoric multidimensional space, and that any characteristic which differentiates among faces can serve as a dimension in that space (Bruce, Burton, & Dench, 1994; Valentine, 1991a; Valentine &...