Many kinds of computer vision problems can be formalized as statistical estimation problems with nuisance parameters. In the past, such problems have been solved without making any distinction between the nuisance parameters and structural ones. However, a theory of statistics suggests that eliminating the nuisance parameters by assuming a probability distribution on them improves estimation ac...

EMU is a wide-field radio continuum survey planned for the new Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope, due to be completed in 2012. The primary goal of EMU is to make a deep (∼10μJy/bm rms) radio continuum survey of the entire Southern Sky at 1.4 GHz, extending as far North as +30◦ declination, with a 10 arcsec resolution. EMU is expected to detect and catalog about 70 m...

The m-testing of model specification pioneered by Newey (1985) and Tauchen (1985) and extended by White (1987) offers a general framework that unifies many specification tests in the literature. Within the m-testing framework, we consider how to test the hypothesis that a model is correctly specified in each of many groups in the population under study, where each of the groups offers only a fe...

This paper reviews the constraints imposed on the solar neutrino mixing parameters by data collected by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). The SNO multivariate analysis is reviewed. The global solar neutrino analysis is emphasized in terms of matter-enhanced oscillation of two active flavors. An outline of how SNO uses the data to produce oscillation contour plots and how to include the re...

In this paper, a regression type estimator representing a class of estimators is proposed to estimate the population mean of the study variable. The bias and mean square error of the proposed estimator are obtained. Also the optimizing value of the unknown parameter is derived and the expression of minimum mean square error is obtained. Further since the proposed estimator is biased, a jackknif...

A central concern of linguistic theory is to account for how the arguments of a given lexical item are associated with positions in a syntactic structure. Many theorists hold that this mapping is mediated by a so-called thematic hierarchy. In Principles-and-Parameters style theories this typically works as follows. A verb selects arguments with certain thematic (θ-) roles. These θ−roles are ran...

A set of type-(m, n) S is a set of points of a design with the property that each block of the design meets either m points or n points of S. The notions of type and of parameters of a k-set (there called characters) were introduced for the first time by Tallini Scafati in [M. Tallini Scafati, {k, n}-archi di un piano grafico finito, con particolare riguardo a quelli con due caratteri. Note I a...

When choosing parameters for a tactile action, it is useful to be able to choose parameters that will optimize the discriminating power of the tactile data acquired during the action. We propose a way to extract this information about informative grasp parameters from a deep network trained to perform a classification task on the tactile data. We do this by defining a new cost function on the n...

How accurately can deterministic modes be identified from a finite record of noisy data? In this paper we answer this question by computing the Cramer-Rao bound on the error covariance matrix of any unbiased estimator of mode parameters. The bound is computed for many of the standard parametric descriptions of a mode, including autoregressive and moving average parameters, poles and residues, a...

The IRAF kpcoude.slit package is specialized for the extraction, sky subtraction, wavelength calibration, and flux calibration of Kitt Peak coude slit spectra. It contains the general tools needed for each of the reduction steps. However, the main emphasis of this package is the task doslit to streamline the complete data reduction. This guide describes what this task does, it’s usage, and para...