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We will now add random noise to each concentration value in Cl through C5. The noise will follow a gaussian distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of. 02 concentration units. This represents an average relative noise level of approximately 5% of the mean concentration values — a level typically encountered when working with industrial samples. Figure 15 contains multivariate plots of the noise-free and the noisy concentration values for Cl through C5. We will not make any use of the noise-free concentrations since we never have these when working with actual data. 

Statistical properties of a data set can be preserved only if the statistical distribution of the data is assumed. PCA assumes the multivariate data are described by a Gaussian distribution, and then PCA is calculated considering only the second moment of the probability distribution of the data (covariance matrix). Indeed, for normally distributed data the covariance matrix (XTX) completely describes the data, once they are zero-centered. From a geometric point of view, any covariance matrix, since it is a symmetric matrix, is associated with a hyper-ellipsoid in N dimensional space. PCA corresponds to a coordinate rotation from the natural sensor space axis to a novel axis basis formed by the principal... 

Investigation of the multivariate Gaussian distribution and the dipole moments of perturbed chains expansion factors for perturbed chains. 

Exercise. The cumulants of first and second degree of a multivariate Gaussian distribution are given by (6.9b). Prove that all higher cumulants vanish. 

A process is called a Gaussian process if all its Pn are (multivariate) Gaussian distributions. In that case all cumulants beyond m = 2 are zero and... 

Each Pn is a multivariate Gaussian distribution, so that we are dealing with a Gaussian process. This enables one to use the equations of 1.6. It is then readily found that = 0, and xt x2,... 

Our discussions so far have been limited to assuming a normal, Gaussian distribution to describe the spread of observed data. Before proceeding to extend this analysis to multivariate measurements, it is worthwhile pointing out that other continuous distributions are important in spectroscopy. One distribution which is similar, but unrelated, to the Gaussian function is the Lorentzian distribution. Sometimes called the Cauchy function, the Lorentzian distribution is appropriate when describing resonance behaviour, and it is commonly encountered in emission and absorption spectroscopies. This distribution for a single variable, x, is defined by... 

Taken independently of the time ordering information, the distribution (7.54) is a multivariable, zi-dimensional, Gaussian distribution... 

DYNAMICAL MODELS FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY 29 average obtained by integration over a multivariate Gaussian distribution ... 

In this multivariate Gaussian distribution. Up is the mean particle velocity and is the inverse of the second-order tensor A, defined such that a given set of velocity moments agrees with Eq. (6.109). Owing to conservation of mass and mean momentum, the first nonzero terms from Eq. (6.109) correspond to the second-order moments. On letting k denote the symmetric second-order tensor constructed from ifjlio), vi, g) with i + j + k = 2 (see Table 6.1),... 

Because / is a multivariate Gaussian distribution its higher-order moments can easily be computed (e.g. using the moment-generating function). However, the reader should keep in mind that the kinetic model ensures only that the moments up to second order are the same as with Eq. (6.109). Third- and higher-order moments may therefore be poorly approximated when the true velocity-distribution function is far from equilibrium. 

To describe correlated peptide conformation fluctuations in internal coordinates, the multivariate Gaussian distribution fiG used for characteristic packets and integration kernels in Cartesian space must be adapted to the periodic and multiply connected torsion angle space. Although the Carte-... 

The factorial methods in this chapter are also called second-order transformations, because only two moments, mean and covariance, are needed to describe the Gaussian distribution of the variables. Other second-order transformations are FA, independent component analysis (ICA), and multivariate curve resolution (MCR). 

A multivariate normal (or Gaussian) distribution is a generalization of the onedimensional normal distribution (also called a Gaussian distribution) to higher... 

Goodman, N. R. Statistical analysis based on a certain multivariate complex Gaussian distribution (an introduction). The Armais of Mathematical Statistics 34(1) (1963), 152-177. 

A number of methods allow the estimation of probability densities, (a) A multivariate Gaussian distribution can be assumed the parameters are the class mean and the covariance matrix, (b) The p-dimensional probability density is estimated by the product of the probability densities of the p features, assuming they are independent, (c) The probability density at location x is estimated by a weighted sum of (Gaussian) kernel functions that have their centers at some prototype points of the class (neural network based on radial ba.sis functions, RBF ). (d) The probability density at location x is estimated from the neighboring objects (with known class memberships or known responses) by applying a voting scheme or by interpolation (KNN, Section 5.2). 

In other cases, more general techniques should be used, such as the Rosenblatt transformation (Rosenblatt 1952) and the Nataf transformation (Nataf 1962). To avoid introduction of additional notation, hereinafter, it is assumed without loss of generality that the vector x has been already transformed and it follows the standard multivariate Gaussian distribution. 

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