Suppose thatX~N-m([mu], [Sigma], [Theta]). An expression for the density function is given when[Sigma][greater-or-equal, slanted]0 and/or[Theta]:[greater-or-equal, slanted]0. An extension of Uhlig's result (Uhlig [17]) is expanded for the singular value decomposition of a matrixZof...

Short-term forecasts of air pollution levels in big cities are now reported in news-papers and other media outlets. Studies indicate that even short-term exposure to high levels of an air pollutant called atmospheric particulate matter can lead to long-term health effects. Data are typically...

In shape analysis, it is usually assumed that the matrix X:N-K of the co-ordinates of landmarks in K is isotropic Gaussian. Let Y:(N-1)-K be the centered matrix of landmarks from X so that Y ~ N([mu], [sigma]2I). Let Y=TT be the Bartlett decomposition of Y into lower triangular, T, and...

Motivated by examples in protein bioinformatics, we study a mixture model of multivariate angular distributions. The distribution treated here (multivariate sine distribution) is a multivariate extension of the well-known von Mises distribution on the circle. The density of the sine distribution...

Measuring the quality of determined protein structures is a very important problem in bioinformatics. Kernel density estimation is a well-known nonparametric method which is often used for exploratory data analysis. Recent advances, which have extended previous linear methods to...

Projective shape consists of the information about a configuration of points that is invariant under projective transformations. It is an important tool in machine vision to pick out features that are invariant to the choice of camera view. The simplest example is the cross ratio for a set of...

In certain multivariate problems the full probability density has an awkward normalizing constant, but the conditional and/or marginal distributions may be much more tractable. In this paper we investigate the use of composite likelihoods instead of the full likelihood. For closed exponential...