In this paper, we propose, analyze and test primal and dual versions of the alternating direction algorithm for the sparse signal reconstruction from its major noise contained observation data. The algorithm minimizes a convex non-smooth function consisting of the sum of ℓ <Subscript>1</Subscript>-norm...</subscript>

type="main" xml:id="insr12031-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title>Multiple event data are frequently encountered in medical follow-up, engineering and other applications when the multiple events are considered as the major outcomes. They may be repetitions of the same event (recurrent events) or may be events of...

We estimate China's demand for foreign reserves from 1994:1 to 2007:4. Using a monetary model for China's reserve demand, we take into account the People's Bank of China's systematic neutralization policy to reduce inflation. While ultimately inconsistent, this policy has led to a growth in...

The rural two-lane highway in the Southeastern United States is frequently associated with a disproportionate number of serious and fatal crashes and as such remains a focus of considerable safety research. The Georgia Department of Transportation spearheaded a regional fatal crash analysis to...

In biomedical studies, ordered bivariate survival data are frequently encountered when bivariate failure events are used as outcomes to identify the progression of a disease. In cancer studies, interest could be focused on bivariate failure times, for example, time from birth to cancer onset and...