结合图像属性的MSD-FICA盲水印算法

基于图像高频子分量相互独立的属性,再结合图像低频能量不易丢失的特点,该文设计了多分辨率子带分解的快速独立分量分析(MSD-FICA)盲水印算法,借鉴了经典的量化调制水印(QIM)算法思想,对原始图像小波分解后的高频成分(水平、垂直、对角小波系数)进行排序,取中频成分。嵌入水印是对中频分量系数和低频分量系数同时嵌入,水印的提取采用快速独立分量分析(FICA)算法,先用主成分分析进行预处理,然后用FICA盲提取水印。实验表明,该算法能有效地提取出水印,并能抵抗一定的压缩、滤波、噪声攻击。     

A Simple Solution to Bayesian Mixture Labeling

The label-switching problem is one of the fundamental problems in Bayesian mixture analysis. Using all the Markov chain Monte Carlo samples as the initials for the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, we propose to label the samples based on the modes they converge to. Our method is based on the assumption that the samples converged to the same mode have the same labels. If a relative noninformative prior is used or the sample size is large, the posterior will be close to the likelihood and then the posterior modes can be located approximately by the EM algorithm for mixture likelihood, without assuming the availability of the closed form of the posterior. In order to speed up the computation of this labeling method, we also propose to first cluster the samples by K-means with a large number of clusters K. Then, by assuming that the samples within each cluster have the same labels, we only need to find one converged mode for each cluster. Using a Monte Carlo simulation study and a real dataset, we demonstrate the success of our new method in dealing with the label-switching problem.     

Compounded inverse Weibull distributions: Properties,inference and applications

ABSTRACT

In this paper two probability distributions are analyzed which are formed by compounding inverse Weibull with zero-truncated Poisson and geometric distributions. The distributions can be used to model lifetime of series system where the lifetimes follow inverse Weibull distribution and the subgroup size being random follows either geometric or zero-truncated Poisson distribution. Some of the important statistical and reliability properties of each of the distributions are derived. The distributions are found to exhibit both monotone and non-monotone failure rates. The parameters of the distributions are estimated using the expectation-maximization algorithm and the method of minimum distance estimation. The potentials of the distributions are explored through three real life data sets and are compared with similar compounded distributions, viz. Weibull-geometric, Weibull-Poisson, exponential-geometric and exponential-Poisson distributions.     

Robust Bayesian analysis of generalized inverted family of distributions

ABSTRACT

In the current study we develop the robust Bayesian inference for the generalized inverted family of distributions (GIFD) under an ε-contamination class of prior distributions for the shape parameter α, with different possibilities of known and unknown scale parameter. We used Type II censoring and Bartholomew sampling scheme (1963) for the following derivations under the squared-error loss function (SELF) and linear exponential (LINEX) loss function : ML-II Bayes estimators of the i) parameters; ii) Reliability function and; iii) Hazard function. We also present simulation study and analysis of a real data set.     

Ad hoc网络中一种新的退避算法

为了提高Ad hoc网络中高等级节点的接入能力,提出了一种新的二进制负指数退避算法,该算法中高等级节点在分组发送成功时将竞争窗口设为普通节点的最小竞争窗口,在发生碰撞时竞争窗口随着退避次数的增加而呈负指数规律减小。仿真结果表明,该算法能够显著提高高等级节点的接入能力,提高了其业务吞吐量,并降低了端到端传输时延。     

Comparing backpropagation with a genetic algorithm for neural network training

This article shows that the use of a genetic algorithm can provide better results for training a feedforward neural network than the traditional techniques of backpropagation. Using a chaotic time series as an illustration, we directly compare the genetic algorithm and backpropagation for effectiveness, ease-of-use, and efficiency for training neural networks.     

Gibbs sampling in DP-based nonlinear mixed effects models

This article uses several approaches to deal with the difficulty involved in evaluating the intractable integral when using Gibbs sampling to estimate the nonlinear mixed effects model (NLMM) based on the Dirichlet process (DP). For illustration, we applied these approaches to real data and simulations. Comparisons are then made between these methods with respect to estimation accuracy and computing efficiency.     

新课标高二数学《算法初步》教学中常见问题分析

基本算法语句主要包括输入输出语句、赋值语句、条件语句和循环语句．笔者结合教学实际，谈了这四种基本语句在教学中常见问题，重点介绍了循环语句在解题中常遇到的几种算法思想．     

SOGS and DSM-IV in the British Gambling Prevalence Survey: Reliability and Factor Structure

This article examines the psychometric performance and reliability of two problem gambling scales (the South Oaks Gambling Screen [SOGS], and a scale based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (4th edn) [DSM-IV]) and their constituent items, based upon data from the first British Gambling Prevalence Survey (Sproston et al ., 2000). Separate factor analyses of SOGS items and DSM-IV items suggested the existence of two independent factors in each case: dependence and gambling-related problems. Scores based upon SOGS and DSM factors correlated only moderately. It is concluded that no single existing screening questionnaire adequately reflects the multi-dimensional nature of problem gambling.     

A likelihood ratio test of a homoscedastic normal mixture against a heteroscedastic normal mixture

It is generally assumed that the likelihood ratio statistic for testing the null hypothesis that data arise from a homoscedastic normal mixture distribution versus the alternative hypothesis that data arise from a heteroscedastic normal mixture distribution has an asymptotic χ ² reference distribution with degrees of freedom equal to the difference in the number of parameters being estimated under the alternative and null models under some regularity conditions. Simulations show that the χ ² reference distribution will give a reasonable approximation for the likelihood ratio test only when the sample size is 2000 or more and the mixture components are well separated when the restrictions suggested by Hathaway (Ann. Stat. 13:795–800, 1985) are imposed on the component variances to ensure that the likelihood is bounded under the alternative distribution. For small and medium sample sizes, parametric bootstrap tests appear to work well for determining whether data arise from a normal mixture with equal variances or a normal mixture with unequal variances.