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Towards Dependable Sensor Networks
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The Faculty of Informatics is pleased to announce a seminar given by Lothar Thiele DATE: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 PLACE: University of Lugano, room SI-003, Informatics building (Via G. Buffi 13) TIME: 13.00 ABSTRACT: The area of wireless sensor...
Créances comptables à court terme sur la Confédération suisse: Résultats de l'émission
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Money market debt register claims of the Swiss Confederation: Results
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Geldmarktbuchforderungen der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft: Zeichnungsergebnisse
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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19 June Goodness-of-fit for generalized linear latent variables models
Generalized Linear Latent Variables Models (GLLVM) enable the modelling of relationships between manifest and latent variables. These models are widely used in the social sciences. In a latent variable framework, one works with several unobservable quantities (latent scores, parameters) and it is herefore essential to choose a model as close as possible to the data. To test the appropriateness of...
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University of Geneva - Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
19 June High Breakdown Inference in the Mixed Linear Model
Mixed linear models are used to analyze data in many settings. These models have a multivariate normal formulation in most cases. The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) or the residual MLE (REML) is usually chosen to estimate the parameters. However, the latter are based on the strong assumption of exact multivariate normality. Welsh and Richardson have shown that these estimators are not robust...
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University of Geneva - Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
19 June Modelling Lorenz Curves: robust and semi-parametric issues
Modelling Lorenz curves (LC) for stochastic dominance comparisons is central to the analysis of income distributions. It is conventional to use non-parametric statistics based on empirical income cumulants which are used in the construction of LC and other related second-order dominance criteria. However, although attractive because of its simplicity and its apparent flexibility, this approach...
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University of Geneva - Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
