‘ We have been looking at models that posit latent structure in high dimensional data. We use the posterior to uncover that structure. ‘ The two main types are mixtures (and variants, like mixed-membership) and factor models (like PCA, factor analysis, and others). ‘ A nagging concern for these methods is model selection—how do I choose the number of mixture components? the number of factors? ‘...

Since 1990, progress has been made toward global tuberculosis (TB) control, as measured by targets set for 2015. However, TB remains a major threat to health around the world. In 2013, there were an estimated 11 million prevalent cases, and an estimated 9.0 million incident cases occurred globally. Approximately 1.5 million deaths were caused by TB, including 360,000 among people living with HI...

Constructed in the 1850s with heavy British involvement, Egyptian railway was first to be built a non-European Mediterranean territory. Britain – which neither financed nor owned this nonetheless came view it as possession. Originally envisioned highway for connecting Red Sea and India, became means unto itself Britain’s drive foothold Egypt. Taking place period of both expanding influence tech...

Development is the essence of well-being and can be broadly categorised into various categories, some which are social, cultural, technological, economic development etc., A country needs to focus on importantly technological able establish itself at global level. India has gone far ahead in terms this since independence. Thomas Friedman often quotes among four pillars new world order apart fro...