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19 August 2022

Most previous studies on lossless image compression have focused on improving preprocessing functions to reduce the redundancy of pixel values in real images. However, we assumed stochastic generative models directly on pixel values and focused on ac...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,148 Views
19 Pages

Meta-Tree Random Forest: Probabilistic Data-Generative Model and Bayes Optimal Prediction

  • Nao Dobashi,
  • Shota Saito,
  • Yuta Nakahara and
  • Toshiyasu Matsushima

18 June 2021

This paper deals with a prediction problem of a new targeting variable corresponding to a new explanatory variable given a training dataset. To predict the targeting variable, we consider a model tree, which is used to represent a conditional probabi...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,727 Views
23 Pages

Saliency Map Generation for SAR Images with Bayes Theory and Heterogeneous Clutter Model

  • Deliang Xiang,
  • Tao Tang,
  • Weiping Ni,
  • Han Zhang and
  • Wentai Lei

11 December 2017

Saliency map generation in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has become a promising research area, since it has a close relationship with quick potential target identification, rescue services, etc. Due to the multiplicative speckle noise and co...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,697 Views
19 Pages

30 July 2021

In information theory, lossless compression of general data is based on an explicit assumption of a stochastic generative model on target data. However, in lossless image compression, researchers have mainly focused on the coding procedure that outpu...

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  • Open Access
1,058 Views
14 Pages

25 September 2024

The error threshold is the cornerstone to balance the mathematical complexity and simulation speed of wind farm (WF) equivalent models, and can promote the standardization process of equivalent methodology. Due to differences in power system conditio...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
818 Views
50 Pages

19 June 2025

Aiming at the existing problems in practical teaching in higher education, we construct an intelligent teaching recommendation model for a higher education practical discussion course based on naive Bayes machine learning and an improved k-NN data mi...

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  • Open Access
124 Citations
9,699 Views
21 Pages

A Comparative Study of Kernel Logistic Regression, Radial Basis Function Classifier, Multinomial Naïve Bayes, and Logistic Model Tree for Flash Flood Susceptibility Mapping

  • Binh Thai Pham,
  • Tran Van Phong,
  • Huu Duy Nguyen,
  • Chongchong Qi,
  • Nadhir Al-Ansari,
  • Ata Amini,
  • Lanh Si Ho,
  • Tran Thi Tuyen,
  • Hoang Phan Hai Yen and
  • Dieu Tien Bui
  • + 2 authors

15 January 2020

Risk of flash floods is currently an important problem in many parts of Vietnam. In this study, we used four machine-learning methods, namely Kernel Logistic Regression (KLR), Radial Basis Function Classifier (RBFC), Multinomial Naïve Bayes (NBM...

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8 December 2025

This study evaluates Empirical Bayes (EB) c-charts for monitoring count-type data under precautionary (PLF) and logarithmic (LLF) loss functions. By assuming an exponential prior for the Poisson mean, the EB framework enables the construction of pred...

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3 Citations
5,831 Views
16 Pages

14 July 2014

The power of projection using divergence functions is a major theme in information geometry. One version of this is the variational Bayes (VB) method. This paper looks at VB in the context of other projection-based methods in information geometry. It...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,624 Views
17 Pages

10 June 2023

Stochastic epidemic models may offer a vitally essential public health tool for comprehending and regulating disease progression. The best illustration of their importance and usefulness is perhaps the substantial influence that these models have had...

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2,533 Views
17 Pages

19 September 2024

In periods of dramatic stock price volatility, the identification of change points in stock price time series is important for analyzing the structural changes in financial market data, as well as for risk prevention and control in the financial mark...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,292 Views
15 Pages

A Model-Agnostic Algorithm for Bayes Error Determination in Binary Classification

  • Umberto Michelucci,
  • Michela Sperti,
  • Dario Piga,
  • Francesca Venturini and
  • Marco A. Deriu

20 October 2021

This paper presents the intrinsic limit determination algorithm (ILD Algorithm), a novel technique to determine the best possible performance, measured in terms of the AUC (area under the ROC curve) and accuracy, that can be obtained from a specific...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,329 Views
22 Pages

11 February 2024

The empirical Bayes (EB) method is widely acclaimed for crash hotspot identification (HSID), which integrates crash prediction model estimates and observed crash frequency to compute the expected crash frequency of a site. The traditional negative bi...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,483 Views
16 Pages

In the current competition process of e-commerce platforms, the technical and algorithmic wars that can quickly grasp user needs and accurately recommend target commodities are the core tools of platform competition. At the same time, the existing on...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,471 Views
15 Pages

1 November 2018

Solar power’s variability makes managing power system planning and operation difficult. Facilitating a high level of integration of solar power resources into a grid requires maintaining the fundamental power system so that it is stable when in...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,879 Views
14 Pages

Multi-Layered Non-Local Bayes Model for Lung Cancer Early Diagnosis Prediction with the Internet of Medical Things

  • Yossra Hussain Ali,
  • Seelammal Chinnaperumal,
  • Raja Marappan,
  • Sekar Kidambi Raju,
  • Ahmed T. Sadiq,
  • Alaa K. Farhan and
  • Palanivel Srinivasan

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been influential in predicting major diseases in current practice. The deep learning (DL) technique is vital in monitoring and controlling the functioning of the healthcare system and ensuring an effective decision-ma...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,051 Views
34 Pages

6 December 2023

In machine learning, classifiers have the feature of constant symmetry when performing the attribute transformation. In the research field of tourism recommendation, tourists’ interests should be mined and extracted by the symmetrical transform...

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5 Citations
1,641 Views
34 Pages

3 April 2024

The commonly used POI route recommendation methods usually ignore the effects of tourists’ interests and transportation geographical conditions, and so may not output the optimal results. To solve the problems, we propose a POI route recommenda...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,451 Views
16 Pages

3 November 2023

Commonly, it is accepted that oncology treatment would yield outcomes with a certain determinism without any quantitative support or mathematical model that establishes such determinations. Nowadays, with the advent of nanomedicine, the targeting dru...

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3 Citations
2,064 Views
27 Pages

31 August 2023

Constructing an accurate model for insurance losses is a challenging task. Researchers have developed various methods to model insurance losses, such as composite models. Composite models combine two distributions: one for part of the data with small...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,369 Views
11 Pages

24 December 2020

High-dimensional data recognition problem based on the Gaussian Mixture model has useful applications in many area, such as audio signal recognition, image analysis, and biological evolution. The expectation-maximization algorithm is a popular approa...

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  • Open Access
1,248 Views
49 Pages

17 August 2025

Meta-analytic deconvolution seeks to recover the distribution of true effects from noisy site-specific estimates. While Efron’s log-spline prior provides an elegant empirical Bayes solution with excellent point estimation properties, its plug-i...

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  • Open Access
55 Citations
2,534 Views
18 Pages

Application of Machine Learning to Predict COVID-19 Spread via an Optimized BPSO Model

  • Eman H. Alkhammash,
  • Sara Ahmad Assiri,
  • Dalal M. Nemenqani,
  • Raad M. M. Althaqafi,
  • Myriam Hadjouni,
  • Faisal Saeed and
  • Ahmed M. Elshewey

28 September 2023

During the pandemic of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), statistics showed that the number of affected cases differed from one country to another and also from one city to another. Therefore, in this paper, we provide an enhanced model for predicti...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,624 Views
22 Pages

7 June 2023

Generalized progressively Type-II hybrid strategy has been suggested to save both the duration and cost of a life test when the experimenter aims to score a fixed number of failed units. In this paper, using this mechanism, the maximum likelihood and...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,409 Views
20 Pages

From p-Values to Posterior Probabilities of Null Hypotheses

  • Daiver Vélez Ramos,
  • Luis R. Pericchi Guerra and
  • María Eglée Pérez Hernández

6 April 2023

Minimum Bayes factors are commonly used to transform two-sided p-values to lower bounds on the posterior probability of the null hypothesis, in particular the bound e·p·log(p). This bound is easy to compute and explain; however,...

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  • Open Access
8,986 Views
18 Pages

17 June 2023

The current literature includes limited information on the classification precision of Bayes estimation for latent class analysis (BLCA). (1) Objectives: The present study compared BLCA with the robust maximum likelihood (MLR) procedure, which is the...

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  • Open Access
226 Citations
16,996 Views
21 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Methods for Forest Fire Modeling and Prediction

  • Binh Thai Pham,
  • Abolfazl Jaafari,
  • Mohammadtaghi Avand,
  • Nadhir Al-Ansari,
  • Tran Dinh Du,
  • Hoang Phan Hai Yen,
  • Tran Van Phong,
  • Duy Huu Nguyen,
  • Hiep Van Le and
  • Tran Thi Tuyen
  • + 3 authors

17 June 2020

Predicting and mapping fire susceptibility is a top research priority in fire-prone forests worldwide. This study evaluates the abilities of the Bayes Network (BN), Naïve Bayes (NB), Decision Tree (DT), and Multivariate Logistic Regression (MLP)...

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219 Citations
14,517 Views
30 Pages

Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Comparison between Logistic Model Tree, Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes Tree, Artificial Neural Network, and Support Vector Machine Algorithms

  • Viet-Ha Nhu,
  • Ataollah Shirzadi,
  • Himan Shahabi,
  • Sushant K. Singh,
  • Nadhir Al-Ansari,
  • John J. Clague,
  • Abolfazl Jaafari,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Shaghayegh Miraki and
  • Baharin Bin Ahmad
  • + 5 authors

Shallow landslides damage buildings and other infrastructure, disrupt agriculture practices, and can cause social upheaval and loss of life. As a result, many scientists study the phenomenon, and some of them have focused on producing landslide susce...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,475 Views
14 Pages

15 July 2022

Vertical integration, also known as make-or-buy, defines whether activities are conducted by company or provided by external parties. There are different models to support decision making for vertical integration in the literature. However, they igno...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,566 Views
17 Pages

Statistical Inference of Jointly Type-II Lifetime Samples under Weibull Competing Risks Models

  • Abdulaziz S. Alghamdi,
  • Gamal Amin Abd-Elmougod,
  • Debasis Kundu and
  • Marin Marin

30 March 2022

In this paper, we develop statistical inference of competing risks samples which are collected under a joint Type-II censoring scheme of products with Weibull lifetime distributions. These inferences are drawn from two independent fatal risks and com...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,719 Views
21 Pages

16 July 2023

A new two-parameter weighted-exponential (WE) distribution, as a beneficial competitor model to other lifetime distributions, namely: generalized exponential, gamma, and Weibull distributions, is studied in the presence of adaptive progressive Type-I...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,480 Views
24 Pages

Mixture-Based Probabilistic Graphical Models for the Label Ranking Problem

  • Enrique G. Rodrigo,
  • Juan C. Alfaro,
  • Juan A. Aledo and
  • José A. Gámez

31 March 2021

The goal of the Label Ranking (LR) problem is to learn preference models that predict the preferred ranking of class labels for a given unlabeled instance. Different well-known machine learning algorithms have been adapted to deal with the LR problem...

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  • Open Access
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16 Pages

7 September 2025

Paratuberculosis is a widespread infectious disease in ruminants that leads to significant economic losses in livestock production. In this study, we developed a practical method for predicting the likelihood of the herd-level presence of the infecti...

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6 Citations
1,647 Views
26 Pages

21 June 2023

Today, the reliability or quality practitioner always aims to shorten testing duration and reduce testing costs without neglecting efficient statistical inference. So, a generalized progressively Type-II hybrid censored mechanism has been developed i...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,673 Views
26 Pages

14 July 2023

A new two-parameter statistical model, obtained by compounding the generalized-exponential and exponential distributions, called the PRC lifetime model, is explored in this paper. This model can be easily linked to other well-known six-lifetime model...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,715 Views
20 Pages

26 April 2023

This paper deals with the statistical inference of the unknown parameter and some life parameters of inverse Lindley distribution under the assumption that the data are adaptive Type-II progressively censored. The maximum likelihood method is conside...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,686 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Bayes Approach to Impervious Surface Extraction from High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

  • Mingchang Wang,
  • Wen Ding,
  • Fengyan Wang,
  • Yulian Song,
  • Xueye Chen and
  • Ziwei Liu

22 May 2022

Impervious surface as an evaluation indicator of urbanization is crucial for urban planning and management. It is necessary to obtain impervious surface information with high accuracy and resolution to meet dynamic monitoring under rapid urban develo...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,332 Views
28 Pages

Inference and Learning in a Latent Variable Model for Beta Distributed Interval Data

  • Hamid Mousavi,
  • Mareike Buhl,
  • Enrico Guiraud,
  • Jakob Drefs and
  • Jörg Lücke

29 April 2021

Latent Variable Models (LVMs) are well established tools to accomplish a range of different data processing tasks. Applications exploit the ability of LVMs to identify latent data structure in order to improve data (e.g., through denoising) or to est...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,976 Views
17 Pages

22 March 2024

Given the emergence of China as a political and economic power in the 21st century, there is increased interest in analyzing Chinese news articles to better understand developing trends in China. Because of the volume of the material, automating the...

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  • Open Access
607 Views
34 Pages

5 November 2025

This paper considers a class of generative graphical models for parsimonious modeling of Gaussian mixtures and robust unsupervised learning, each assuming that the data are generated independently and identically from a finite mixture model with an e...

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4 Citations
2,110 Views
19 Pages

30 August 2024

Rapid urbanization has altered the natural surface properties and spatial patterns, increasing the risk of urban waterlogging. Assessing the probability of urban waterlogging risk is crucial for preventing and mitigating the environmental risks assoc...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,706 Views
30 Pages

Innovative Artificial Intelligence Approach for Hearing-Loss Symptoms Identification Model Using Machine Learning Techniques

  • Mohd Khanapi Abd Ghani,
  • Nasir G. Noma,
  • Mazin Abed Mohammed,
  • Karrar Hameed Abdulkareem,
  • Begonya Garcia-Zapirain,
  • Mashael S. Maashi and
  • Salama A. Mostafa

12 May 2021

Physicians depend on their insight and experience and on a fundamentally indicative or symptomatic approach to decide on the possible ailment of a patient. However, numerous phases of problem identification and longer strategies can prompt a longer t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,561 Views
25 Pages

29 May 2023

A new two-parameter extended exponential lifetime distribution with an increasing failure rate called the Poisson–exponential (PE) model was explored. In the reliability experiments, an adaptive progressively Type-II hybrid censoring strategy i...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,179 Views
20 Pages

31 March 2010

The present paper describes a novel recognition method of pulmonary nodules (i.e., cancer candidates) in thoracic computed tomography scans by use of three-dimensional spherical and cylindrical models that represent nodules and blood vessels, respect...

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  • Open Access

Interpretable Multi-Model Framework for Early Warning of SME Loan Delinquency

  • Ardak Akhmetova,
  • Assem Shayakhmetova and
  • Nurken Abdurakhmanov
Risks2026, 14(2), 25;https://doi.org/10.3390/risks14020025 
(registering DOI)

31 January 2026

The rapid expansion of small and medium enterprise (SME) lending has intensified the need for accurate and interpretable credit risk forecasting. Financial institutions must anticipate potential business loan delinquency to maintain portfolio stabili...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,668 Views
16 Pages

24 September 2009

By a “covering” we mean a Gaussian mixture model fit to observed data. Approximations of the Bayes factor can be availed of to judge model fit to the data within a given Gaussian mixture model. Between families of Gaussian mixture models, we propose...

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  • Open Access
1,002 Views
32 Pages

1 December 2025

This study presents the design and evaluation of a multi-model artificial intelligence (AI) framework for proactive quality risk management in projects. A dataset comprising 2000 risk records was developed, containing four columns: Risk Description (...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,799 Views
17 Pages

17 June 2019

Submarine mine water inrush has become a problem that must be urgently solved in coastal gold mining operations in Shandong, China. Research on water in subway systems introduced classifications for the types of mine groundwater and then established...

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  • Open Access
685 Views
28 Pages

4 December 2025

This study proposes Bayesian estimation of multivariate regular vine (R-vine) copula models with generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) margins modeled by Gaussian-mixture distributions. The Bayesian estimation approach inc...

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