Limit standards are probabilistic requirements or benchmarks regarding the proportion of replications conforming or not conforming to a desired threshold. Sample proportions resul...
In the task of adaptive information filtering, a system receives a stream of documents but delivers only those that match a person's information need. As the system filters i...
Collaborative filtering is a useful technique for exploiting the preference patterns of a group of users to predict the utility of items for the active user. In general, the perfo...
Abstracts "Mixtures at the Interface" David Scott, Rice University Mixture modeling provides an effective framework for complex, high-dimensional data. The potential of m...
The Bayesian paradigm apparently only sometimes gives rise to Occam's Razor; at other times very large models perform well. We give simple examples of both kinds of behaviour...