Paper available: `Statistical Aspects of Neural Networks'

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4 total messages Started by ripley Mon, 03 Aug 1992 14:15

#135

Author: ripley
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 14:15

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A paper, with principal audience statisticians, entitled

	Statistical Aspects of Neural Networks

is available by anonymous ftp from 

	markov.stats.ox.ac.uk (192.76.20.1 or 129.67.1.190)

at pub/neural/papers/ripley.ps.Z (336kB), with abstract ripley.abstract as
follows:

Neural networks have been a much-publicized topic of research in the
last five years, and are now beginning to be used in a wide range of
subject areas traditionally thought by statisticians to be their
domain. This paper explores the basic ideas of neural networks from the
point of view of a statistician, and compares some of their
applications with those of traditional and modern methods of statistics
and pattern recognition.

Neural networks are mainly used as non-linear approximations to
multivariable functions or as classifiers.  They are non-parametric in
character in that no subject-domain knowledge is incorporated in the
modelling process, and the parameters are estimated using algorithms
which at least in principle can be computed on loosely-coupled parallel
computers.  We argue that the modelling-based approach traditional in
statistics and pattern recognition can be at least as effective, and
often more so. This is illustrated by data on the areas in Zimbabwe
environmentally suitable for Tsetse flies.


Invited lectures for SemStat (S\'eminaire Europ\'een de
Statistique), Sandbjerg, Denmark, 25-30 April 1992. To appear in the
proceedings to be published by Chapman & Hall in January 1993.

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|      Prof. Brian D. Ripley                         |
|      Dept. of Statistics,  University of Oxford,   |
|      1 South Parks Road,   Oxford OX1 3TG, UK      |
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|      ripley@uk.ac.ox.stats (JANET)                 |
|      ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Internet)              |
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Re: Paper available: `Statistical Aspects of Neural Networks'

#147

Author: Darrell McCauley
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 22:41

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In article <1992Aug3.151501.7994@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, ripley@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
|> A paper, with principal audience statisticians, entitled
|> 	Statistical Aspects of Neural Networks
|> is available by anonymous ftp from 
|> 	markov.stats.ox.ac.uk (192.76.20.1 or 129.67.1.190)
|> at pub/neural/papers/ripley.ps.Z (336kB), with abstract ripley.abstract as
|> follows:

Has anyone had trouble printing this?  I get the titlepage w/ abstract
and the table of contents (two pages total), then my printer dies.

ghostview is able to interpret it (but not totally - page numbers
are not given, so I can't print selectively).

pageview dies completely (but what do you expect from pageview?)

If anyone knows a trick to get this printed on a laser writer hanging
off of a sun, let me know. 

Prof Ripley: Would it be possible to make the TeX source and PostScript
figures available as well?
-- 
James Darrell McCauley          Department of Ag Engr, Purdue Univ
mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu         West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1146
** "Do what is important first, then what is urgent." (unknown) **

Re: Paper available: `Statistical Aspects of Neural Networks'

#149

Author: Ross Ihaka
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 05:36

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mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:

>Has anyone had trouble printing this?  I get the titlepage w/ abstract
>and the table of contents (two pages total), then my printer dies.

It printed just fine on our HP Laserjet IIISi.  Some of the figures
took a while though.

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Re: Paper available: `Statistical Aspects of Neural Networks'

#166

Author: Geoff Nicholls
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 09:38

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To print it I had to use the scroll option for
the unix lpr command.

lpr -Pprintername -s filename

Dont delete the file till the printer is finished.
 
I think this is because the laser-writer's buffer 
isnt big enough and the file has to be read in chunks 
from disk. 

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Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH, U.K.       Phone:    (0483) 300800 ex 2322
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and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat" Chekov of Tolstoy

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