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In neuroimaging data analysis, Gaussian graphical models are often used to model statistical dependencies across spatially remote brain regions known as functional connectivity. Typically, data is collected across a cohort of subjects and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-08 Ricardo Pio Monti , Christoforos Anagnostopoulos , Giovanni Montana

In this paper, we construct an estimator of an errors-in-variables linear regression model. The regression model leads to a constrained total least squares problems with row and column constraints. Although this problem can be numerically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Kensuke Aishima

Understanding brain connectivity in a network-theoretic context has shown much promise in recent years. This type of analysis identifies brain organisational principles, bringing a new perspective to neuroscience. At the same time, large…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Sarah Parisot , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Markus D. Schirmer , Boris Gutman

This paper addresses the problem of distributed learning under communication constraints, motivated by distributed signal processing in wireless sensor networks and data mining with distributed databases. After formalizing a general model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Joel B. Predd , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

We consider high-dimensional multivariate linear regression models, where the joint distribution of covariates and response variables is a multivariate normal distribution with a bandable covariance matrix. The main goal of this paper is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Kwangmin Lee , Kyoungjae Lee , Jaeyong Lee

We discuss a class of difference-based estimators for the autocovariance in nonparametric regression when the signal is discontinuous (change-point regression), possibly highly fluctuating, and the errors form a stationary $m$-dependent…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-09 Inder Tecuapetla-Gómez , Axel Munk

Longitudinal brain imaging data facilitate the monitoring of structural and functional alterations in individual brains across time, offering essential understanding of dynamic neurobiological mechanisms. Such data improve sensitivity for…

Applications · Statistics 2026-02-04 Zhentao Yu , Jiaqi Ding , Guorong Wu , Quefeng Li

We introduce the network model as a formal psychometric model, conceptualizing the covariance between psychometric indicators as resulting from pairwise interactions between observable variables in a network structure. This contrasts with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Sacha Epskamp , Mijke Rhemtulla , Denny Borsboom

In semi-supervised learning on graphs, response variables observed at one node are used to estimate missing values at other nodes. The methods exploit correlations between nearby nodes in the graph. In this paper we prove that many such…

Applications · Statistics 2010-11-09 Ya Xu , Justin S. Dyer , Art B. Owen

Nowadays, in many scientific and industrial fields there is an increasing need for estimating treatment effects and answering causal questions. The key for addressing these problems is the wealth of observational data and the processes for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-24 Niki Kiriakidou , Christos Diou

Structural covariance analysis is a widely used structural MRI analysis method which characterises the co-relations of morphology between brain regions over a group of subjects. To our knowledge, little has been investigated in terms of the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-01 Jona Carmon , Jil Heege , Joe H Necus , Thomas W Owen , Gordon Pipa , Marcus Kaiser , Peter N Taylor , Yujiang Wang

It is always a hot and difficult point to improve the accuracy of convolutional neural network model and speed up its convergence. Based on the idea of small world network, a random edge adding algorithm is proposed to improve the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Xuanyu Shu , Jin Zhang , Sen Tian , Sheng chen , Lingyu Chen

We present a simple linear regression based approach for learning the weights and biases of a neural network, as an alternative to standard gradient based backpropagation. The present work is exploratory in nature, and we restrict the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Harshad Khadilkar

Traditional neural networks (multi-layer perceptrons) have become an important tool in data science due to their success across a wide range of tasks. However, their performance is sometimes unsatisfactory, and they often require a large…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-09 Gyu Min Kim , Jeong Min Jeon

We propose a general framework for non-normal multivariate data analysis called multivariate covariance generalized linear models (McGLMs), designed to handle multivariate response variables, along with a wide range of temporal and spatial…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-25 Wagner Hugo Bonat , Bent Jørgensen

With our ability to record more neurons simultaneously, making sense of these data is a challenge. Functional connectivity is one popular way to study the relationship between multiple neural signals. Correlation-based methods are a set of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-09 Tiger W. Lin , Anup Das , Giri P. Krishnan , Maxim Bazhenov , Terrence J. Sejnowski

Structured additive distributional regression models offer a versatile framework for estimating complete conditional distributions by relating all parameters of a parametric distribution to covariates. Although these models efficiently…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-14 Jana Kleinemeier , Nadja Klein

This paper proposes two projector-based Hopfield neural network (HNN) estimators for online, constrained parameter estimation under time-varying data, additive disturbances, and slowly drifting physical parameters. The first is a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Miguel Pedro Silva

In generalized regression models the effect of continuous covariates is commonly assumed to be linear. This assumption, however, may be too restrictive in applications and may lead to biased effect estimates and decreased predictive…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-01 Nikolai Spuck , Matthias Schmid , Moritz Berger

Time-varying covariates in longitudinal studies frequently evolve through reciprocal feedback, undergo role reversal, and reflect unobserved individual heterogeneity. Standard statistical frameworks often assume fixed covariate roles and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-27 Niloofar Ramezani , Pascal Nitiema , Jeffrey R. Wilson