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Idea - Using compression to extract building blocks

Posted by: kerem in HMM , Methodology , Note , Uncategorized 8 years, 3 months ago

So, initially when I was using CTW the problem was with VQ, in particular, independence of the quantization from the inference in the Markovian model. I solved that using HMMs so that the quantization is learned simultaneously with the structure.

Comparing HMMs state-by-state and Choosing Initial Values for Emission Means

Posted by: kerem in HMM , Methodology , Note 8 years, 4 months ago

I just realized that I can meaningfully compare many HMMs if I sort the states. If I put in initial emission distribution means so that for a univariate case the first state is the one with the lowest mean whereas the last one is the one with the highest mean, then I can ensure that I get the same state labeling for all trained models. This naturally extends to the multivariate case.

lme4 and P-values

Posted by: kerem in Bayesian , Methodology , Note 8 years, 5 months ago

There is a lot of stuff online about eliciting p-values for lme4 linear mixed-effects regression model coefficients (just google it). I opted for MCMCglmm because I like MCMC , and because lme4 has deprecated its own MCMC implementation.