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BMCBI
2008
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Comparison of methods for estimating the nucleotide substitution matrix
Background: The nucleotide substitution rate matrix is a key parameter of molecular evolution. Several methods for inferring this parameter have been proposed, with different math...
Maribeth Oscamou, Daniel McDonald, Von Bing Yap, G...
BMCBI
2006
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Using the nucleotide substitution rate matrix to detect horizontal gene transfer
Background: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has allowed bacteria to evolve many new capabilities. Because transferred genes perform many medically important functions, such as conf...
Micah Hamady, M. D. Betterton, Rob Knight
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Metamotifs - a generative model for building families of nucleotide position weight matrices
Background: Development of high-throughput methods for measuring DNA interactions of transcription factors together with computational advances in short motif inference algorithms...
Matias Piipari, Thomas A. Down, Tim J. P. Hubbard
CVPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A General Method for Errors-in-Variables Problems in Computer Vision
The Errors-in-Variables (EIV) model from statistics is often employed in computer vision thoughonlyrarely under this name. In an EIV model all the measurements are corrupted by no...
Bogdan Matei, Peter Meer
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Comparison of several covariance matrix estimators for portfolio optimization
Modern portfolio theory dates back to a seminal 1952 paper by H. Markowitz and has been very influential both in academic finance and among practitioners in the financial indus...
Ka Ki Ng, Priyanka Agarwal, Nathan Mullen, Dzung D...