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CSDA
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
How useful are approximations to mean and variance of the index of dissimilarity?
Sociologists, demographers, and economists often use the index of dissimilarity, D, to describe the extent of racial, ethnic, spatial, or areal dissimilarity (or segregation) of d...
Madhuri S. Mulekar, John C. Knutson, Jyoti A. Cham...
STOC
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
On sums of independent random variables with unbounded variance, and estimating the average degree in a graph
We prove the following inequality: for every positive integer n and every collection X1, . . . , Xn of nonnegative independent random variables that each has expectation 1, the pr...
Uriel Feige
IJAR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
The game-theoretic capital asset pricing model
Using Shafer and Vovk's game-theoretic framework for probability, we derive a capital asset pricing model from an efficient market hypothesis, with no assumptions about the b...
Vladimir Vovk, Glenn Shafer
ICIAR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Structural Similarity-Based Approximation of Signals and Images Using Orthogonal Bases
The structural similarity (SSIM) index has been shown to be an useful tool in a wide variety of applications that involve the assessment of image quality and similarity. However, i...
Dominique Brunet, Edward R. Vrscay, Zhou Wang
ALENEX
2001
105views Algorithms» more  ALENEX 2001»
13 years 6 months ago
A Probabilistic Spell for the Curse of Dimensionality
Range searches in metric spaces can be very di cult if the space is \high dimensional", i.e. when the histogram of distances has a large mean and a small variance. The so-cal...
Edgar Chávez, Gonzalo Navarro