ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2011
IEEE
This paper proposes a technique for constructing independent parameter tying structures of mean and variance in HMMbased speech synthesis. Conventionally, mean and variance parame...
TSP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
The objective of this paper is twofold. The first part provides further insight in the statistical properties of the Welch power spectrum estimator. A major drawback of the Welch m...
JMLR
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Concentration inequalities that incorporate variance information (such as Bernstein's or Bennett's inequality) are often significantly tighter than counterparts (such as...
JMLR
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
In this paper, we consider two variance reduction schemes that exploit the structure of the primal graph of the graphical model: Rao-Blackwellised w-cutset sampling and AND/OR sam...
JACM
2011
13 years 5 months ago
2011
We analyze the convergence of randomized trace estimators. Starting at 1989, several algorithms have been proposed for estimating the trace of a matrix by 1 M M i=1 zT i Azi, where...
CORR
1999
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
1999
Springer
We recently presented a methodology to quantitatively reduce the average time and variance in the time required to execute electronic transactions in a network environment such as...
BMCBI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Background: When DNA microarray data are used for gene clustering, genotype/phenotype correlation studies, or tissue classification the signal intensities are usually transformed ...
BIOINFORMATICS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Motivation: A microarray experiment is a multi-step process, and each step is a potential source of variation. There are two major sources of variation: biological variation and t...
JAR
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Statistical quantities, such as expectation (mean) and variance, play a vital role in the present age probabilistic analysis. In this paper, we present some formalization of expect...
COR
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Minimizing Waiting Time Variance (WTV) is a job scheduling problem where we schedule a batch of n jobs, for servicing on a single resource, in such a way that the variance of thei...