he finite invert Beta-Liouville mixture model (IBLMM) has recently gained some attention due to its positive data modeling capability. Under the conventional variational inference (VI) framework, the analytically tractable ...

Mangalarga Marchador (MM) is a very important Brazilian gaited horse breed. These animals show two gait types, differing in proportion of lateral or diagonal movements. Thus, it is possible to consider the gait type as a ...

We review some issues related to the implications of different missing data mechanisms on statistical inference for contingency tables and consider simulation studies to compare the results obtained under such models to ...

Surveillance systems are quite common in almost every building. The current dimension of these systems is huge and involves a great deal of hardware and human resources for achieving these objectives. This paper proposes ...

Many traits of biological interest in tree breeding are assessed using more than two ordered discrete categories. These scores have a more or less arbitrary and subjective assignment by the assessors, which could lead to ...

In 1969, Brent Berlin and Paul Kay presented a classic study of color namingwhere experimentally demonstrated that all languages share a universal color assignment system of 11 basic color categories. Based on this work, ...

The modeling of uncertainty in continuous and categorical regionalized variables is a common issue in the geosciences. We present a hybrid continuous/categorical model, in which the continuous variable is represented by ...

Throughout the history of science, different knowledge areas have collaborated to overcome major research challenges. The task of associating a researcher with such areas makes a series of tasks feasible such as the ...