introduction: estimation of cation exchange capacity (cec) with reliable soil properties can save time and cost. pedotransfer function (ptf) is a common method in estimating certain soil properties (e.g. cec) that has been wieldy used for many years. one of the common techniques that have been used to develop ptfs is multiple linear regressions. in this method, all easily obtained soil properti...

We study a regression problem where for some part of the data we observe both label variable (Y) and predictors (X), while other only are given. Such arises, example, when observations costly may require skilled human agent. When conditional expectation E[Y|X] is not exactly linear, one can consider best linear approximation to expectation, which be estimated consistently by least-square estima...

Tensor regression is an important and useful tool for analyzing multidimensional array data. To deal with high dimensionality, CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) low-rank constraints are often imposed on the coefficient tensor parameter in (penalized) loss functions. However, besides well-known non-identifiability issue of CP parameters, we demonstrate that corresponding optimization may not have any attai...