Senior Project Archive

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Graphics inclusion

http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/index.php?title=Graphics_inclusion

The following is found on wiki:

Including graphics in a LaTeX-document is done with a command like this:

\includegraphics{image.jpg} 

where image.jpg is a graphic-file of the JPEG-type. It is assumemed that you have loaded the graphics-package in your preamble. There are variants of this command, for example

\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{image.jpg} 

- see for other options, for example, here or the documentation of the graphics-package. While this is very easy, one needs to be aware that not all file types are supported.

supported file types

These are the file types that are supported, depending on the typesetting-mode you are using. As a Mac-User, you are most likely a user of (pdf)latex with pdf-output.

latex with dvi-output	latex with pdf-output
eps	pdf,jpg,png,mps

See this article in the PracTeX Journal for more on this.

epstopf: including eps-graphics in a pdfLaTeX-document

The epstopf-package helps to overcome the limitations of latex and pdflatex when it comes to available graphic-formats. Its main purpose is to allow the inclusion of .eps-graphic in documents that are typeset in pdflatex (with a pdf as an output file). What the package does is that it calls an external script (with the same name: epstopdf) that converts a eps-graphic into a pdf such that pdflatex can use this. So, if you are using pdflatex, the following document would work:

\documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{epstopdf} \begin{document} \includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{image.eps} \end{document} 

Add (Hyper-)Links to PDFs

By tom

Source Link: http://texblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/hyper-links-to-the-pdfs/

Adding links to PDFs , both internal and external, certainly only makes sense for digital copies of the file. Nevertheless, they still come in handy, for example for actual WWW-addresses or as direct reference inside a document.

Local references

As usual, you first need the package which handles the links:

\usepackage{hyperref}

This does the job for the moment. The package “hyperref” will automatically insert links wherever you place a citation or reference (\cite{}, \ref{}).

Global references

Referencing to URLs or local files can be done as follows:

\href{url}{text}

Try this:

\href{http://texblog.wordpress.com}{\bf{Blog on Latex Matters}}

Colour references

So far, the references were marked by a colour rectangle around them, which is not very appealing (unless you are using Apple Preview). Here is how you remove the border and if you wish define your own colours for references.

Either add this optional argument to the previous package:

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

or use a new line and set the colour:

\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks}

If you want to define your own colours, you will have to use the latter, as the colours are part of the argument of “hypersetup”. But in order to do so, you first need to define colours, which is why you will need the colour-package:

\usepackage{color}

Then you can define different colours you may want to use for your references, e.g.:

\definecolor{darkred}{rgb}{0.5,0,0}
\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.5,0}
\definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0,0,0.5}

Latex uses the standard RGB (red/green/blue) colour model. The three values define the intensity for each channel within the interval (just because Latex looks nicer:-).

Now you are ready to use the defined colours, by extending the previously used command:

\hypersetup{ colorlinks,
linkcolor=darkblue,
filecolor=darkgreen,
urlcolor=darkred,
citecolor=darkblue }

Note: If your tex-distribution does not contain the hyperref-package, you can download it here (hyperref.zip), including the complete documentation.

WinEdt 6: font changing

WinEdt 6: font changing

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.winedt/5662

I'll try to guide you to the new way of changing font settings under WinEdt 6.0, so please go to the following menu:  Options --> Options...  Note the opened left pane and from there select Font Schemes... -> Font  In the opened file select the mentioned 5 lines pertaining to font options;  Click the second (font) button in the upper left corner of the Options panel and select your desired font options;  Now click in the first button to "Load Current Script" and save the new settings. That's all.  You can also change font settings in "private.ini" instead of "font.ini" under "Advanced Configuration" branch of the Options (left) pane.  Good luck!  Bernhard Enders

All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful

“All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful” -George Box

George E.P. Box, Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building, page 202 of Robustness in Statistics, R.L. Launer and G.N. Wilkinson, Editors. 1979.

Generalized Information Measures and Their Applications

Generalized Information Measures
and Their Applications

Inder Jeet Taneja, Ph. D.
Departamento de Matemática
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
88.040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

• Chapter 0: Introduction

• Chapter 1: Shannon's Entropy

• Chapter 2: Information and Divergence Measures


• Chapter 3: Entropy-Type Measures


• Chapter 4: Generalized Information and Divergence Measures


• Chapter 5: M-Dimensional Divergence Measures and Their Generalizations


• Chapter 6: Unified (r,s)-Multivariate Entropies


• Chapter 7: Noiseless Coding and Generalized Information Measures


• Chapter 8: Channel Capacity and Source Coding Theorems


• Chapter 9: Statistical Aspects of Information Measures


• Chapter 10: Bayesian Probability of Error and Generalized Information Measures


• Chapter 11: Fuzzy Sets and Information Measures


• Bibliography


• About this document ...

Book: Forecasting with Exponential Smoothing The State Space Approach

Forecasting with Exponential Smoothing
The State Space Approach,Rob Hyndman, Anne Koehler, Keith Ord and Ralph SnyderSpringer Link

Information Theoretic Research

Information Theory Research Group

at Washington U. St. Louis

Type I or Type II error?

An interesting discussion with how to memorize these two concepts.

Type I error: false alarm

Type II error: failed detection

Type I and Type II Errors

Posted by Ethan Fosse at March 7, 2011 8:29 PM

Another interesting discussion pointed out by Jeromy Anglim

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/1610/is-there-a-way-to-remember-the-definitions-of-type-i-and-type-ii-errors

Fuzzy Least Square Estimation

Asymptotic properties of least squares estimation with fuzzy observations

Hae Kyung Kim^{, a,} , Jin Hee Yoon^a and Ying Li^a

Information Sciences
Volume 178, Issue 2, 15 January 2008, Pages 439-451

Maximum Rank Correlation Estimators

1. Robert P. Sherman (1993, Econometrica)
The Limiting Distribution of the Maximum Rank Correlation Estimator

2. Aaron K. Han (1987, Journal of Econometrics)
Non-parametric analysis of a generalized regression model : The maximum rank correlation estimator

3. M. G. Kendall (1938, Biometrika)
A New Measure of Rank Correlation

4. Jason Abrevaya (1999, Economics Letters)
Computation of the maximum rank correlation estimator

5. Songnian Chen(2002, Econometrica)
Rank Estimation of Transformation Models

6. Christopher Cavanagh and Robert P. Sherman (1998, Journal of Econometrics)
Rank estimators for monotonic index models