In traditional applications of latent variable models, each exogenous latent variable must either have its variance parameter fixed or a loading path to a measured indicator variable fixed (either customarily to 1). Without doing so the measurement model will suffer from underidentification, thereby yielding no unique solution when estimating the parameters of interest. The choice of whether to...

In many applications, including climate science, power systems, and remote sensing, multiple input variables are observed for each output variable and the output variables are dependent. Several methods have been proposed to improve prediction by learning the conditional distribution of the output variables. However, when the relationship between the raw features and the outputs is nonlinear, t...

This paper presents an application of Support Vector Regression method for the prediction of an environmental variable such as the level of natural radioactivity. The basics of the method are described, and some practical considerations are presented, including the meaning of the method’s parameters and their influence on the model. The use of the prior data is discussed. It is shown how to inc...

Most current methods for calculating radiative transfer treat radiance errors to the point where no one has seriously light as a scalar quantity, even though it is well known that a worried about the adequacy of the scalar approximation in proper description of light requires explicit recognition of its radiative transfer modeling. Moreover, the nature of radiative electromagnetic nature. Accor...

3GHr. The stirnuhis duration was 300ns and the profile duration, which corresponds to the time for which the scattering parameters measurements are performed during the stimulus duration, was 25011s. The maximum stable gain MSG was determined under different pulsed conditions at I' ds = 10V (Fig. 4). At room temperature in class B for the quiescent hias point, the MSG was -4dB. If the device wa...

We have examined the statistics of the polarization position angles determined for point sources in the NRAO-VLA sky survey (NVSS) and find that there is a statistically significant bias toward angles which are multiples of 45 degrees. The formal probability that the polarization angles are drawn from a uniform distribution is exponentially small. When the sample of those NVSS sources with pola...

We describe 'Active Shape Models' which iteratively adapt to refine estimates of the pose, scale and shape of models of image objects. The method uses flexible models derived from sets of training examples. These models, known as Point Distribution Models, represent objects as sets of labelled points. An initial estimate of the location of the model points in an image is improved by attempting ...