In this paper, we present our initial efforts in the task of Automatically Synchronizing live spoken Utterances with their Transcripts (textual contents) (ASUT). We address the problem of online detecting of the end time of a spoken utterance given its textual content, which is one of the key problems of the ASUT task. A frame-synchronous likelihood ratio test (FS-LRT) procedure is proposed and...

Maximum-likelihood methods based on models of codon substitution accounting for heterogeneous selective pressures across sites have proved to be powerful in detecting positive selection in protein-coding DNA sequences. Those methods are phylogeny based and do not account for the effects of recombination. When recombination occurs, such as in population data, no unique tree topology can describe...

This Monte Carlo study assessed Type I error in differential item functioning analyses using Lord’s chi-square (LC), Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT), and Mantel-Haenszel (MH) procedure. Two research interests were investigated: response theory (IRT) model specification LC the LRT continuity correction MH enhances literature by investigating correct incorrect model-data fit comparing those results t...

a pedigree file consisting of 5860 individuals, 167 sires and 1582 dams collected at makooei sheep breeding station (msbs) during a period of 24 years (1990 to 2013) was used to calculate the inbreeding coefficients to reveal any probable effects of inbreeding (f) on the studied traits. the studied traits were classified to the five main groups including body weight, kleiber ratio, body measure...

Rare variant association studies are gaining importance in human genetic research with the increasing availability of exome/genome sequence data. One important test of association between a target set of rare variants (RVs) and a given phenotype is the sequence kernel association test (SKAT). Assignment of weights reflecting the hypothesized contribution of the RVs to the trait variance is embe...

We examine a test of a nonparametric regression function based on penalized spline smoothing. We show that, similarly to a penalized spline estimator, the asymptotic power of the penalized spline test falls into a small- K or a large-K scenarios characterized by the number of knots K and the smoothing parameter. However, the optimal rate of K and the smoothing parameter maximizing power for tes...

This article describes a SAS macro to assess model fit of structural equation models by employing a test of the model-implied vanishing tetrads. Use of this test has been limited in the past, in part due to the lack of software that fully automates the test in a user-friendly way. The current SAS macro provides a straightforward method for researchers touse thevanishing tetrads impliedbymodels ...

This paper investigates the statistical detection of Jsteg steganography. The approach is based on the statistical model of Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) coefficients. The hidden information detection problem is case in the framework of Hypothesis testing theory. In an ideal context where all model parameters are perfectly known, the Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT) is presented and its perfo...

For random samples of size n obtained from p-variate normal distributions, we consider the classical likelihood ratio tests (LRT) for their means and covariance matrices in the high-dimensional setting. These test statistics have been extensively studied in multivariate analysis, and their limiting distributions under the null hypothesis were proved to be chi-square distributions as n goes to i...

In a recent letter in Molecular Biology and Evolution, Schierup and Hein (2000a) showed that the likelihood ratio test (LRT) of the molecular clock (Felsenstein 1981) ‘‘wrongly’’ rejects the clock hypothesis when recombination has occurred. However, this result should not be taken as a failure of the LRT. Because in the presence of recombination often there is not one single tree describing the...