One of the goals of statistics is to make inferences about population parameters from a limited set of observations. Last month, we showed how Bayes' theorem is used to update probability estimates as ...

Wavelet threshold algorithms replace small magnitude wavelet coefficients with zero and keep or shrink the other coefficients. This is basically a local procedure, because wavelet coefficients ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract With the rapid accumulation of various high-throughput genomic and proteomic data, one is compelled to develop new statistical methods that ...