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Independent component analysis (ICA) has become a popular multivariate analysis and signal processing technique with diverse applications. This paper is targeted at discussing theoretical large sample properties of ICA unmixing matrix…
Independent component analysis (ICA) estimates a demixing matrix that can recover statistically independent sources from linear mixtures. FastICA is a popular ICA algorithm due to its efficiency, but its performance strongly depends on a…
The FastICA algorithm is one of the most popular iterative algorithms in the domain of linear independent component analysis. Despite its success, it is observed that FastICA occasionally yields outcomes that do not correspond to any true…
The fastICA method is a popular dimension reduction technique used to reveal patterns in data. Here we show both theoretically and in practice that the approximations used in fastICA can result in patterns not being successfully recognised.…
In the present paper we consider the varying coefficient model which represents a useful tool for exploring dynamic patterns in many applications. Existing methods typically provide asymptotic evaluation of precision of estimation…
The asymmetric objective function is proposed as an alternative to Huber objective function to model skewness and obtain robust estimators for the location, scale and skewness parameters. The robustness and asymptotic properties of the…
This contribution summarizes the results on the asymptotic performance of several variants of the FastICA algorithm. A number of new closed-form expressions are presented.
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There is an extensive set of methods to determine sparse sources from mixtures where the mixing coefficients are unknown. Each method involves plotting N sets of mixed data against each other in N-dimensional space. In the approach adopted…
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We revisit a formulation technique for inequality constrained optimization problems that has been known for decades: the substitution of squared variables for nonnegative variables. Using this technique, inequality constraints are converted…
We study the semiparametric efficient estimation of a class of linear functionals in settings where a complete multivariate dataset is supplemented by additional datasets recording subsets of the variables of interest. These datasets are…
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