The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 37, No. 6B (December 2009), pp. 4279-4312 (34 pages) We investigate a method for extracting nonlinear principal components (NPCs). These NPCs maximize variation subject ...

Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial.

The generalized linear model (Nelder & Wedderburn, 1972) has become an elegant and practical option to classical least-squares linear model building. We consider the specific problem of generalized ...

A good way to see where this article is headed is to take a look at the screen shot of a demo program shown in Figure 1. The demo sets up a dummy dataset of six items: [ 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2] [ 5.4 3.9 1.7 ...

Inside living cells, mitochondria divide, lysosomes travel, and synaptic vesicles pulse—all in three dimensions (3Ds) and constant motion. Capturing these events with clarity is vital not just for ...