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This is the first comprehensive treatment of feed-forward neural networks from the perspective of statistical pattern recognition. After introducing the basic concepts, the book examines techniques for modelling probability density functions and the properties and merits of the multi-layer perceptron and radial basis function network models. Also covered are various forms of error functions, principal algorithms for error function minimalization, learning and generalization in neural networks, and Bayesian techniques and their applications. Designed as a text, with over 100 exercises, this fully up-to-date work will benefit anyone involved in the fields of neural computation and pattern recognition.

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Neural networks for pattern recognition

This paper describes a simple method of calculating a heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent covariance matrix that is positive semi-definite by construction. It also establishes consistency of the estimated covariance matrix under fairly general conditions.

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A simple, positive semi-definite, heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent covariance matrix

Structural equation modeling (SEM) has become a quasi-standard in marketing and management research when it comes to analyzing the cause-effect relations between latent constructs. For most researchers, SEM is equivalent to carrying out covariance-based SEM (CB-SEM). While marketing researchers have a basic understanding of CB-SEM, most of them are only barely familiar with the other useful approach to SEM-partial least squares SEM (PLS-SEM). The current paper reviews PLS-SEM and its algorithm, and provides an overview of when it can be most appropriately applied, indicating its potential and limitations for future research. The authors conclude that PLS-SEM path modeling, if appropriately applied, is indeed a "silver bullet" for estimating causal models in many theoretical models and empirical data situations.

PLS-SEM: Indeed a Silver Bullet

Generalized Additive Models.

Donoho and Johnstone (1994) proposed a method for reconstructing an unknown function f on [0,1] from noisy data d/sub i/=f(t/sub i/)+/spl sigma/z/sub i/, i=0, ..., n-1,t/sub i/=i/n, where the z/sub i/ are independent and identically distributed standard Gaussian random variables. The reconstruction f/spl circ/*/sub n/ is defined in the wavelet domain by translating all the empirical wavelet coefficients of d toward 0 by an amount /spl sigma//spl middot//spl radic/(2log (n)/n). The authors prove two results about this type of estimator. [Smooth]: with high probability f/spl circ/*/sub n/ is at least as smooth as f, in any of a wide variety of smoothness measures. [Adapt]: the estimator comes nearly as close in mean square to f as any measurable estimator can come, uniformly over balls in each of two broad scales of smoothness classes. These two properties are unprecedented in several ways. The present proof of these results develops new facts about abstract statistical inference and its connection with an optimal recovery model. >

De-noising by soft-thresholding

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On the correlation between solvent scales and solvent-induced carbon-13 nmr chemical shifts of a planar lithium carbanion. a multivariate data analysis using a principal component - multiple regression-like formalism

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Palladium catalysis in the synthesis of hydroxymethylfuryl pyrimidinyl ketones

The aquatic toxicity of 34 alkyl polyglucosides (APGs) towards two fresh-water species, Thamnocephalus platyurus and Brachionus calyciflorus were studied. The toxicity tests were performed using so ...

Multivariate quantitative structure-activity relationships for the aquatic toxicity of alkyl polyglucosides

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Svante Wold

Papers

On the correlation between solvent scales and solvent-induced carbon-13 nmr chemical shifts of a planar lithium carbanion. a multivariate data analysis using a principal component - multiple regression-like formalism

Palladium catalysis in the synthesis of hydroxymethylfuryl pyrimidinyl ketones

Multivariate quantitative structure-activity relationships for the aquatic toxicity of alkyl polyglucosides

Generation and reactions of 2,3-dibenzylidene-2,3-dihydrothiophene

A multivariate method for carbon-13 NMR chemical shift predictions using partial least-squares data analysis