Let (X(t),0 [less-than-or-equals, slant] t [less-than-or-equals, slant] 1) be a zero mean, continuous-path stationary Gaussian process with autocovariance function [rho]X(s) = 1 - ? s , where 0[less-than-or-equals, slant]?[less-than-or-equals, slant]2. We investigate the joint distribution of...

Topic models allow the probabilistic modeling of term frequency occurrences in documents. The fitted model can be used to estimate the similarity between documents as well as between a set of specified keywords using an additional layer of latent variables which are referred to as topics. The R...

Four years after the last European football championship (EURO) in Austria and Switzerland, the two finalists of the EURO 2008 - Spain and Germany - are again the clear favorites for the EURO 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine. Using a bookmaker consensus rating - obtained by aggregating winning...

After 36 years the FIFA World Cup returns to South America with the 2014 event being hosted in Brazil (after 1978 in Argentina). And as in all previous South American FIFA World Cups, a South American team is expected to take the victory: Using a bookmaker consensus rating - obtained by...