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On the false discovery rates of a frequentist: Asymptotic expansions
Consider a testing problem for the null hypothesis .
The standard frequentist practice is to reject the null hypothesis when the
p-value is smaller than a threshold value , usually 0.05. We ask the
question how many of the null hypotheses a frequentist rejects are actually
true. Precisely, we look at the Bayesian false discovery rate
under a proper prior density
. This depends on the prior , the sample size , the threshold
value as well as the choice of the test statistic. We show that the
Benjamini--Hochberg FDR in fact converges to almost surely under
for any fixed . For one-sided null hypotheses, we derive a third order
asymptotic expansion for in the continuous exponential family when
the test statistic is the MLE and in the location family when the test
statistic is the sample median. We also briefly mention the expansion in the
uniform family when the test statistic is the MLE. The expansions are derived
by putting together Edgeworth expansions for the CDF, Cornish--Fisher
expansions for the quantile function and various Taylor expansions. Numerical
results show that the expansions are very accurate even for a small value of
(e.g., ). We make many useful conclusions from these expansions, and
specifically that the frequentist is not prone to false discoveries except when
the prior is too spiky. The results are illustrated by many examples.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/074921706000000699 in the IMS
Lecture Notes--Monograph Series
(http://www.imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
A Sparse Johnson--Lindenstrauss Transform
Dimension reduction is a key algorithmic tool with many applications
including nearest-neighbor search, compressed sensing and linear algebra in the
streaming model. In this work we obtain a {\em sparse} version of the
fundamental tool in dimension reduction --- the Johnson--Lindenstrauss
transform. Using hashing and local densification, we construct a sparse
projection matrix with just non-zero entries
per column. We also show a matching lower bound on the sparsity for a large
class of projection matrices. Our bounds are somewhat surprising, given the
known lower bounds of both on the number of rows
of any projection matrix and on the sparsity of projection matrices generated
by natural constructions.
Using this, we achieve an update time per
non-zero element for a -approximate projection, thereby
substantially outperforming the update time
required by prior approaches. A variant of our method offers the same
guarantees for sparse vectors, yet its worst case running time
matches the best approach of Ailon and Liberty.Comment: 10 pages, conference version
An Improved Algorithm for Eye Corner Detection
In this paper, a modified algorithm for the detection of nasal and temporal
eye corners is presented. The algorithm is a modification of the Santos and
Proenka Method. In the first step, we detect the face and the eyes using
classifiers based on Haar-like features. We then segment out the sclera, from
the detected eye region. From the segmented sclera, we segment out an
approximate eyelid contour. Eye corner candidates are obtained using Harris and
Stephens corner detector. We introduce a post-pruning of the Eye corner
candidates to locate the eye corners, finally. The algorithm has been tested on
Yale, JAFFE databases as well as our created database
State feedback control of power system oscillations
Damping of electromechanical oscillations in power systems is one of the major concerns in the operation of power system since many years. The oscillations may be local to a single generator or generator plant (local oscillations), or they may involve a number of generators widely separated geographically (inter-area oscillations). These oscillations causes improper of the power system incorporating losses. Local oscillations often occur when a fast exciter is used on the generator, and to stabilize these oscillations, Power System Stabilizers (PSS) were
developed. Inter-area oscillations may appear as the systems loading is increased across the weak
transmission links in the system which characterize these oscillations. If not controlled, these oscillations may lead to total or partial power interruption. Electricité de France developed two state feedback controllers aiming to effectively damp electromechanical oscillations present in
power systems. These are Desensitized Four Loop Regulator (DFLR) and Extended Desensitized Four Loop Regulator (EDFLR). The DFLR is designed to damp local lectromechanical
oscillations while the EDFLR aims at damping both local and inter-area oscillations. The dynamics of the DFLR and EDLFR are needed to be studies in order to model them. These
models are to be incorporated with the generator models to get a power system model with state feedback control. On simulating the system in Simulink with the controllers we will get the power system model with state feedback control and we can observe how these controllers are helpful in damping the oscillations
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