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Probability inequalities
I am looking for some probability inequalities for sums of unbounded random variables. I would really appreciate it if anyone can provide me some thoughts.
My problem is to find an exponential upper ...
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Link Anomaly Detection in Temporal Network
I came across this paper that uses link anomaly detection to predict trending topics, and I found it incredibly intriguing: The paper is "Discovering Emerging Topics in Social Streams via Link Anomaly ...
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State of art streaming learning
I have been working with large data sets lately and found a lot of papers of streaming methods. To name a few:
Follow-the-Regularized-Leader and Mirror Descent:
Equivalence Theorems and L1 ...
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Jaynes' $A_p$ distribution
In Jaynes' book "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science", Jaynes has a chapter (Ch 18) entitled "The $A_p$ distribution and rule of succession" in which he introduces the idea of $A_p$ distributions,...
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The cross validation (CV) and the generalized cross validation (GCV) statistics
I have found possibly conflicting definitions for the cross validation (CV) statistic and for the generalized cross validation (GCV) statistic associated with a linear model $Y = X\boldsymbol\beta + \...
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Wavelet-domain gaussian processes: what is the covariance?
I've been reading Maraun et al, "Nonstationary Gaussian processes in wavelet domain: Synthesis, estimation, and significant testing" (2007) which defines a class of non-stationary GPs that can be ...
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Simulating time-series given power and cross spectral densities
I am having trouble generating a set of stationary colored time-series, given the covariance matrix (their PSDs and CSDs).
I know that, given two time-series $y_{I}(t)$ and $y_{J}(t)$, I can ...
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Choosing optimal alpha in elastic net logistic regression
I'm performing an elastic-net logistic regression on a health care dataset using the glmnet package in R by selecting lambda values over a grid of $\alpha$ from 0 ...
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Bound for Arithmetic Harmonic mean inequality for matrices?
NOTE: This question has originally been posted in MSE, but it did not generate any interest. It was first posted there, because the question itself is a pure matrix-algebra question.
Nevertheless, ...
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Blind source separation of convex mixture?
Suppose I have $n$ independent sources, $X_1, X_2, ..., X_n$ and I observe $m$ convex mixtures:
\begin{align}
Y_1 &= a_{11}X_1 + a_{12}X_2 + \cdots + a_{1n}X_n\\
...&\\
Y_m &= a_{m1}X_1 + ...
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$ARIMA(p,d,q)+X_t$, Simulation over Forecasting period
I have time series data and I used an $ARIMA(p,d,q)+X_t$ as the model to fit the data. The $X_t$ is an indicator random variable that is either 0 (when I don’t see a rare event) or 1 (when I see the ...
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How to create a multivariate Brownian Bridge
It is known, that a standard multivariate Brownian bridge $ y(\mathbf u) $ is a centered Gaussian process with covariance function
$$ \mathbb E(y(\mathbf u) y(\mathbf v)) = \prod_{j=1}^d (u_j \wedge ...
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Upper bounds for the copula density?
The Fréchet–Hoeffding upper bound applies to the copula distribution function and it is given by
$$C(u_1,...,u_d)\leq \min\{u_1,..,u_d\}.$$
Is there a similar (in the sense that it depends on the ...
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AIC versus cross validation in time series: the small sample case
I am interested in model selection in a time series setting. For concreteness, suppose I want to select an ARMA model from a pool of ARMA models with different lag orders. The ultimate intent is ...
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Distribution of inverse Wishart to a power?
In a related question, I had asked about the norm induced by an inverse Wishart matrix. I am interested in generalizing that result somewhat. Let $A\sim\mathcal{W}_p\left(I,n\right)$, a Wishart matrix ...
