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JAL
2002
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Rates of convergence for Quicksort
The normalized number of key comparisons needed to sort a list of randomly permuted items by the Quicksort algorithm is known to converge in distribution. We identify the rate of ...
Ralph Neininger, Ludger Rüschendorf
IJPRAI
1998
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Obtaining The Correspondence between Bayesian and Neural Networks
We present in this paper a novel method for eliciting the conditional probability matrices needed for a Bayesian network with the help of a neural network. We demonstrate how we c...
Athena Stassopoulou, Maria Petrou
TIT
1998
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The Minimum Description Length Principle in Coding and Modeling
—We review the principles of Minimum Description Length and Stochastic Complexity as used in data compression and statistical modeling. Stochastic complexity is formulated as the...
Andrew R. Barron, Jorma Rissanen, Bin Yu
TELSYS
2002
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Queue Lengths and Waiting Times for Multiserver Queues with Abandonment and Retrials
We consider a Markovian multiserver queueing model with time dependent parameters where waiting customers may abandon and subsequently retry. We provide simple fluid and diffusion ...
Avishai Mandelbaum, William A. Massey, Martin I. R...
CSDA
2007
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Mixtures of spatial and unstructured effects for spatially discontinuous health outcomes
This paper proposes mixture models for spatially adaptive smoothing of health event data (e.g. mortality or illness totals). Such models allow for spatial pooling of strength but a...
Peter Congdon