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Carsten Peterson
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Determining Dependency structures and estimating nonlinear regression errors without doing regression
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Summary, in English
A general method is discussed, the δ-test, which establishes functional dependencies given a table of measurements. The approach is based on calculating conditional probabilities from data densities. Imposing the requirement of continuity of the underlying function the obtained values of the conditional probabilities carry information on the variable dependencies. The power of the method is illustrated on synthetic time-series with different time-lag dependencies and noise levels. For N data points the computational demand is N2. Also, the same method is used for estimating nonlinear regression errors and their distributions without performing regression. Comparing the predicted residual errors with those from linear models provides a signal for nonlinearity. The virtue of the method in the context of feedforward neural networks is stressed with respect to preprocessing data and tracking residual errors.
Department/s
- Computational Biology and Biological Physics - Has been reorganised
Publishing year
1995
Language
English
Pages
611-616
Publication/Series
International Journal of Modern Physics B
Volume
6
Issue
4
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing
Topic
- Probability Theory and Statistics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0217-9792