1. Introduction and Overview. 2. Detecting Influential Observations and Outliers. 3. Detecting and Assessing Collinearity. 4. Applications and Remedies. 5. Research Issues and Directions for Extensions. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.

Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity

2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Outlier detection has recently become an important problem in many industrial and financial applications. In this paper, a novel feature bagging approach for detecting outliers in very large, high dimensional and noisy databases is proposed. It combines results from multiple outlier detection algorithms that are applied using different set of features. Every outlier detection algorithm uses a small subset of features that are randomly selected from the original feature set. As a result, each outlier detector identifies different outliers, and thus assigns to all data records outlier scores that correspond to their probability of being outliers. The outlier scores computed by the individual outlier detection algorithms are then combined in order to find the better quality outliers. Experiments performed on several synthetic and real life data sets show that the proposed methods for combining outputs from multiple outlier detection algorithms provide non-trivial improvements over the base algorithm.

Feature bagging for outlier detection

Aim: The “2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure” replaces the “2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure” and the “2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure.” The 2022 guideline is intended to provide patient-centric recommendations for clinicians to prevent, diagnose, and manage patients with heart failure. Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted from May 2020 to December 2020, encompassing studies, reviews, and other evidence conducted on human subjects that were published in English from MEDLINE (PubMed), EMBASE, the Cochrane Collaboration, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and other relevant databases. Additional relevant clinical trials and research studies, published through September 2021, were also considered. This guideline was harmonized with other American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology guidelines published through December 2021. Structure: Heart failure remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. The 2022 heart failure guideline provides recommendations based on contemporary evidence for the treatment of these patients. The recommendations present an evidence-based approach to managing patients with heart failure, with the intent to improve quality of care and align with patients’ interests. Many recommendations from the earlier heart failure guidelines have been updated with new evidence, and new recommendations have been created when supported by published data. Value statements are provided for certain treatments with high-quality published economic analyses. 

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001063

2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

Outlier detection has recently become an important problem in many industrial and financial applications. This problem is further complicated by the fact that in many cases, outliers have to be detected from data streams that arrive at an enormous pace. In this paper, an incremental LOF (local outlier factor) algorithm, appropriate for detecting outliers in data streams, is proposed. The proposed incremental LOF algorithm provides equivalent detection performance as the iterated static LOF algorithm (applied after insertion of each data record), while requiring significantly less computational time. In addition, the incremental LOF algorithm also dynamically updates the profiles of data points. This is a very important property, since data profiles may change over time. The paper provides theoretical evidence that insertion of a new data point as well as deletion of an old data point influence only limited number of their closest neighbors and thus the number of updates per such insertion/deletion does not depend on the total number of points TV in the data set. Our experiments performed on several simulated and real life data sets have demonstrated that the proposed incremental LOF algorithm is computationally efficient, while at the same time very successful in detecting outliers and changes of distributional behavior in various data stream applications

https://cis.temple.edu/~latecki/Papers/CIDM07.pdf

Incremental Local Outlier Detection for Data Streams

In quality control, a proper Phase I analysis is essential to the success of Phase II monitoring. A literature review reveals no distribution-free Phase I multivariate techniques in existence. This research develops a Phase I location control chart for multivariate elliptical processes. The resulting in-control reference sample can then be used to estimate the parameters for Phase II monitoring. Using Monte Carlo simulation, the proposed method is compared with the Hotelling's T2 Phase I chart. Although Hotelling's T2 chart is preferred when the data are multivariate normal, the proposed method is shown to perform significantly better under nonnormality. This article has supplementary material online.

A Distribution-Free Multivariate Phase I Location Control Chart for Subgrouped Data from Elliptical Distributions

Chatterjee and Machler (1997) propose an iteratively weighted least squares procedure as a robust fit for linear models. The weights are a function of leverage and residuals. The standard measure of leverage (the diagonal element of the projection matrix) as is well known, can be distorted by the presence of collection of points which individually have small leverage values but collectively forms a high leverage group (“masking points”). The Chatterjee-Machler procedure is not very effective when there is extensive masking. We present a procedure which works in the presence or absence of masking. In the proposed new procedure, instead of using the diagonal elements of the projection matrix as a measure of leverage, we use a robust distance proposed by Hadi (1992a, 1994). This measure eliminates the distorting effect of masking by constructing a measure of location and dispersion for the observed points which is free from the effects of multivariate outliers and clustering in the X-space. The metho...

A Re-Weighted Least Squares Method for Robust Regression Estimation

This study uses machine learning techniques (ML) to classify and cluster different Western music genres. Three artificial neural network models (multi-layer perceptron neural network [MLP], probabilistic neural network [PNN]) and self-organizing maps neural network (SOM) along with support vector machines (SVM) are compared to two standard statistical methods (linear discriminant analysis [LDA] and cluster analysis [CA]). The variable sets considered are average frequencies, variance frequencies, maximum frequencies, amplitude or loudness of the sound and the median of the location of the 15 highest peaks in the periodogram. The results show that machine learning models outperform traditional statistical techniques in classifying and clustering different music genres due to their robustness and flexibility of modeling algorithms. The study also shows how it is possible to identify various dimensions of music genres by uncovering complex patterns in the multidimensional data.

Recognition of Western style musical genres using machine learning techniques

As new markets, technologies and economies evolve in the low carbon bioeconomy, forest logging residue, a largely untapped renewable resource will play a vital role. The feedstock can however be variable depending on plant species and plant part component. This heterogeneity can influence the physical, chemical and thermochemical properties of the material, and thus the final yield and quality of products. Although it is challenging to control compositional variability of a batch of feedstock, it is feasible to monitor this heterogeneity and make the necessary changes in process parameters. Such a system will be a first step towards optimization, quality assurance and cost-effectiveness of processes in the emerging biofuel/chemical industry. The objective of this study was therefore to qualitatively classify forest logging residue made up of different plant parts using both near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS) together with linear discriminant analysis (LDA). Forest logging residue harvested from several Pinus taeda (loblolly pine) plantations in Alabama, USA, were classified into three plant part components: clean wood, wood and bark and slash (i.e., limbs and foliage). Five-fold cross-validated linear discriminant functions had classification accuracies of over 96% for both NIRS and FTIRS based models. An extra factor/principal component (PC) was however needed to achieve this in FTIRS modeling. Analysis of factor loadings of both NIR and FTIR spectra showed that, the statistically different amount of cellulose in the three plant part components of logging residue contributed to their initial separation. This study demonstrated that NIR or FTIR spectroscopy coupled with PCA and LDA has the potential to be used as a high throughput tool in classifying the plant part makeup of a batch of forest logging residue feedstock. Thus, NIR/FTIR could be employed as a tool to rapidly probe/monitor the variability of forest biomass so that the appropriate online adjustments to parameters can be made in time to ensure process optimization and product quality.

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Nedret Billor

Papers

A Distribution-Free Multivariate Phase I Location Control Chart for Subgrouped Data from Elliptical Distributions

A Re-Weighted Least Squares Method for Robust Regression Estimation

Recognition of Western style musical genres using machine learning techniques

Identifying Plant Part Composition of Forest Logging Residue Using Infrared Spectral Data and Linear Discriminant Analysis.

Validation of prediction equations for apparent metabolizable energy of corn distillers dried grains with solubles in broiler chicks