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I am a data scientist. I am currently doing work on radar and image processing.


Mar
21
comment How to combine the responses of two sensors?
I was trying to fuse two one dimensional data sets representing "sensor response" over distance in one direction to come up with a confidence value between 0 and 1 that reflected the probability that an object of interest was present, at a given distance. The distance values are not error free, but it's as good as it's going to get. I ended up just normalizing and using an elaborate, ad hoc weighting scheme that took into account the strength of relative responses. I didn't post it as an answer, because it was totally by-gosh-by-gollied.
Sep
24
comment How to combine the responses of two sensors?
The two sensors are the OpenCV template matching function, and the SURF algorithm. I am trying to detect certain shapes in an image.
Sep
21
comment How to combine the responses of two sensors?
I'm a little lost. Being sensed is a binary outcome, but the response of the sensors is continuous, and I do not have an a priori threshold. I'm not sure I am comfortable interpolating a two dimensional surface from two one dimensional data sets. I think I was more curious if there were existing models for fusing data from one dimensional functions.
Sep
21
comment How to combine the responses of two sensors?
I do not have any reference data. I'm doing a blind study. Sampling an interpolation, normalizing and then comparing the two resultant series sounds like a good idea. Thanks!
Sep
20
asked How to combine the responses of two sensors?
Jun
15
awarded  Autobiographer
May
8
awarded  Editor
May
8
revised Why would someone use a Bayesian approach with a 'noninformative' improper prior instead of the classical approach?
I expanded the abbreviation MCMC, to Markov chain Monte Carlo.
May
8
suggested suggested edit on Why would someone use a Bayesian approach with a 'noninformative' improper prior instead of the classical approach?
Apr
26
awarded  Scholar
Apr
26
accepted I have a statistic, how do I calculate its distribution?
Apr
26
comment I have a statistic, how do I calculate its distribution?
Whammy. I was hoping that there was some kind of boot-strapping solution. Thank you for pointing out the piece-wise inversion result, I did not know about that.
Apr
25
comment I have a statistic, how do I calculate its distribution?
Is this the only way to go about determining a distribution from a statistic? If I try to perform, $$ f_{Y}(y) = f_{X}(g^{-1}(y)) \bigl\vert \dfrac{d}{dy}g^{-1}(y) \bigr\vert, $$ any statistic $ Y = g(X) $ of the data, $ X $, involving the Spearman rank correlation test will not be one-to-one. Assuming I had a statistic, $ g(X) $, that was invertible, the underlying data, $ X $, is image data that doesn't follow any simple distributions. (I guess I could model it as a complicated mixture of Gaussians, right?) Is there any other way to describe a distribution of an arbitrary statistic?
Apr
25
awarded  Student
Apr
25
asked I have a statistic, how do I calculate its distribution?