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Kernel Fisher discriminant analysis

Hello.

Please notice the edits I did on Kernel Fisher discriminant analysis, which are usages prescribed by WP:MOS and WP:MOSMATH:

Lower-case initial letters in the title except where there's a reason for capitalization;
Similarly in the title phrase and its synonyms in the first paragraph;
The title phrase and its synonyms are set in bold at their first appearance;
Lower-case initial letters in section headings except where there's a reason for capitalization (generally the first letter in a section heading is capitalized; later initial letters are not except when there is some other reason for it, such as a proper name like Fisher);
"Displayed" TeX is indented by a colon;
A content issue: The initial sentence in the article failed to tell the lay reader that statistics is what it's about. Now it says "In statistics,...."
Another content issue: It now says at the outset that it's named after Ronald Fisher.

A subtler issue is that no other articles linked to that one (subtler because it's not seen in the article's edit history). I added two such links. If you click on "what links here" in the "toolbox" menu, and restrict the search to the "article" namespace, you'll see which ones currently link to it. Possibly there should be more such links. After you create a new article you should add links to it from other articles that should link to it. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:06, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

CDF-based nonparametric confidence interval

Please notice my recent edits to CDF-based nonparametric confidence interval. The same points apply that I mentioned in my earlier posting here.

There were no other articles that linked to that article, so I added an "orphan" tag. The list of statistics articles does now link to this new article, but nothing else does yet. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:05, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Indices of summation

Hi, Bmears11,

I see that on 12 December 2012 you added this integer programming version of the traveling salesman problem:

{\begin{aligned}\min &\sum _{i\neq j}c_{ij}x_{ij}&\\0\leq &x_{ij}\leq 1&\forall i,j\\&x_{ij}{\text{ integer}}&\forall i,j\\&\sum _{i=0,i\neq j}^{n}x_{ij}=1&j=0,\ldots ,n\\&\sum _{j=0,j\neq i}^{n}x_{ij}=1&i=1,\ldots ,n\\u_{i}-u_{j}&+nx_{ij}\leq n-1&1\leq i\neq j\leq n\\u_{i}\geq 0&&1\leq i\leq n.\end{aligned}}

In the last two inequalities i and j go from 1 to n, and in the second set of equalities i goes from 1 to n. But in three places i and/or j goes from 0 to n. Should these three appearances of 0 be changed to 1? Duoduoduo (talk) 15:38, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, and a small question

I realize I'm over a decade late to the party, but I wanted to thank you for your article "CDF-based nonparametric confidence interval". It's very nice.

In the section A nonparametric bound on the mean, you say "Assume without loss of generality that the support of the distribution is contained in [0,1]". I was expecting the word 'bounded' to modify 'distribution'. The title of the Anderson (1969) paper you mention refers to bounded random variables rather than arbitrary ones. Clearly the translation is possible if the distribution is bounded.

I guess you can use some appropriate bijection such as atan(x)/(pi/2) to translate an unbounded range to [0,1], but the back-translation would blow up the confidence limits, wouldn't they?

Scwarebang (talk) 20:13, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]