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WSC
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Global Likelihood Optimization Via the Cross-Entropy Method, with an Application to Mixture Models
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge t...
Zdravko I. Botev, Dirk P. Kroese
ACML
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Robust Discriminant Analysis Based on Nonparametric Maximum Entropy
In this paper, we propose a Robust Discriminant Analysis based on maximum entropy (MaxEnt) criterion (MaxEnt-RDA), which is derived from a nonparametric estimate of Renyi’s quadr...
Ran He, Bao-Gang Hu, Xiaotong Yuan
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
When are feedforward microcircuits well-modeled by maximum entropy methods?
Describing the collective activity of neural populations is a daunting task: the number of possible patterns grows exponentially with the number of cells, resulting in practically...
Andrea K. Barreiro, Julijana Gjorgjieva, Fred Riek...
DCG
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Bregman Voronoi Diagrams
The Voronoi diagram of a point set is a fundamental geometric structure that partitions the space into elementary regions of influence defining a discrete proximity graph and dual...
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Frank Nielsen, Richard Noc...
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SIBGRAPI
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Non-Extensive Entropy for CAD Systems of Breast Cancer Images
Recent statistics show that breast cancer is a major cause of death among women in all of the world. Hence, early diagnostic with Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems is a very ...
Paulo S. Rodrigues, Ruey-Feng Chang, Jasjit S. Sur...