基于贝叶斯网络的中医辨证系统

将贝叶斯网络运用于中医辨证系统的研究,以更加量化中医辨证诊断系统.通过将中医体系中的916个证候,51项证素及其构成的1700条证名构成中医辨证贝叶斯网络的节点集,初步建立起中医辨证数据库并通过网络学习,形成中医辨证贝叶斯网络结构及概率表.利用建立的贝叶斯网络中医辨证系统,进行数据计量分析、推理验证证候—证素—证名间的关系,其结果与中医专家经验有很高的吻合性,尽管其仍未能全面反映中医辨证的思维能力.所以贝叶斯网络是对中医辨证进行信息挖掘处理的一种较好方法,可应用于中医人工智能辨证系统的建立.     

基于时间窗的SVDBN近似推理算法研究

变结构动态贝叶斯网络(SVDBN)在处理非稳态过程的不确定问题具有其独特的优越性。为克服SVDBN推理算法不能实现在线推理的缺陷,在引入SVDBN的时间窗和时间窗宽度概念基础上,阐述了基于时间窗的SVDBN在线近似推理机制,提出了2种在线近似推理算法,即基于时间窗的变结构离散动态贝叶斯网络(SVDDBN)递推推理算法和基于时间窗的SVDDBN快速推理算法。通过仿真实验验证了这2种算法的有效性,并从复杂度、适用范围及更新时间等方面进行了比较。     

基于贝叶斯学习的关联向量机及其在软测量中的应用

介绍了一种与支持向量机(SVM)函数形式相同的稀疏概率模型--关联向量机(RVM),其训练是在贝叶斯框架下进行的,在处理具有噪声的函数回归时,RVM具有很出色的性能.与SVM相比不仅解更稀疏,而且无需调整模型参数,核函数选择也不受限制.将RVM应用于PTA装置溶剂脱水塔塔顶塔底组分软测量建模,仿真结果表明:该方法预测精度较高,具有一定的应用价值.     

基于贝叶斯公式的信息反馈机制

提出了一种基于贝叶斯公式的信息反馈模型BIF.当系统拒绝用户对资源的访问时,BIF通过计算在当前的条件下改变某些访问条件的可能性,把用户的访问条件的替代方案限制到一个小而有用的集合,系统将具有最大可能性的选项反馈给用户.用户根据系统的反馈改变访问条件从而成功访问资源.BIF引入附加策略来保护敏感策略,在此过程中不会泄漏任何危及到系统安全和机密性的信息.实验证明,BIF模型在保护了系统敏感信息的同时,也提高了系统的可用性及访问成功的几率.     

Treed Avalanche Forecasting: Mitigating Avalanche Danger Utilizing Bayesian Additive Regression Trees

Little Cottonwood Canyon Highway is a dead‐end, two‐lane road leading to Utah's Alta and Snowbird ski resorts. It is the only road access to these resorts and is heavily traveled during the ski season. Professional avalanche forecasters monitor this road throughout the ski season in order to make road closure decisions in the face of avalanche danger. Forecasters at the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) avalanche guard station at Alta have maintained an extensive daily winter database on explanatory variables relating to avalanche prediction. Whether or not an avalanche crosses the road is modeled in this paper via Bayesian additive tree methods. Utilizing daily winter data from 1995 to 2011, results show that using Bayesian tree analysis outperforms traditional statistical methods in terms of realized misclassification costs that take into consideration asymmetric losses arising from two types of error. Closing the road when an avalanche does not occur is an error harmful to resort owners, and not closing the road when one does may result in injury or death. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Dynamic Model Averaging and CPI Inflation Forecasts: A Comparison between the Euro Area and the United States

The paper forecasts consumer price inflation in the euro area (EA) and in the USA between 1980:Q1 and 2012:Q4 based on a large set of predictors, with dynamic model averaging (DMA) and dynamic model selection (DMS). DMA/DMS allows not solely for coefficients to change over time, but also for changes in the entire forecasting model over time. DMA/DMS provides on average the best inflation forecasts with regard to alternative approaches (such as the random walk). DMS outperforms DMA. These results are robust for different sample periods and for various forecast horizons. The paper highlights common features between the USA and the EA. First, two groups of predictors forecast inflation: temporary fundamentals that have a frequent impact on inflation but only for short time periods; and persistent fundamentals whose switches are less frequent over time. Second, the importance of some variables (particularly international food commodity prices, house prices and oil prices) as predictors for consumer price index inflation increases when such variables experience large shocks. The paper also shows that significant differences prevail in the forecasting models between the USA and the EA. Such differences can be explained by the structure of these respective economies. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Forecast Combination and Bayesian Model Averaging: A Prior Sensitivity Analysis

In this study we evaluate the forecast performance of model‐averaged forecasts based on the predictive likelihood carrying out a prior sensitivity analysis regarding Zellner's g prior. The main results are fourfold. First, the predictive likelihood does always better than the traditionally employed ‘marginal’ likelihood in settings where the true model is not part of the model space. Secondly, forecast accuracy as measured by the root mean square error (RMSE) is maximized for the median probability model. On the other hand, model averaging excels in predicting direction of changes. Lastly, g should be set according to Laud and Ibrahim (1995: Predictive model selection. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B 57 : 247–262) with a hold‐out sample size of 25% to minimize the RMSE (median model) and 75% to optimize direction of change forecasts (model averaging). We finally apply the aforementioned recommendations to forecast the monthly industrial production output of six countries, beating for almost all countries the AR(1) benchmark model. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Forecasting regional house price inflation: a comparison between dynamic factor models and vector autoregressive models

This paper uses the dynamic factor model framework, which accommodates a large cross‐section of macroeconomic time series, for forecasting regional house price inflation. In this study, we forecast house price inflation for five metropolitan areas of South Africa using principal components obtained from 282 quarterly macroeconomic time series in the period 1980:1 to 2006:4. The results, based on the root mean square errors of one to four quarters ahead out‐of‐sample forecasts over the period 2001:1 to 2006:4 indicate that, in the majority of the cases, the Dynamic Factor Model statistically outperforms the vector autoregressive models, using both the classical and the Bayesian treatments. We also consider spatial and non‐spatial specifications. Our results indicate that macroeconomic fundamentals in forecasting house price inflation are important. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于混合先验分布的贝叶斯因子分析模型

针对现有因子分析模型不能充分融合模型参数信息问题,通过研究因子分析模型的统计结构,构造了参数的混合先验分布;利用贝叶斯定理证明了模型因子载荷阵的条件后验分布为矩阵t分布,协方差阵的条件后验分布为逆Wishart分布.实证研究表明:由于参数先验分布的作用,贝叶斯因子分析结果与传统的因子分析之间存在明显的差异.     

基于M-ANFIS-PNN的目标威胁评估模型

目标威胁评估的目的是根据目标的属性和状态信息对目标的威胁程度进行定量估计,为后续作战决策提供辅助支持。现有威胁评估模型大多依赖于数值信息,难以有效处理包含定性、定量数据的目标特征信息。基于此,提出一种改进的自适应模糊神经推理系统模型。在自适应模糊神经推理系统的基础上,引入前件影响矩阵和后件影响矩阵对定性数据进行处理,使得定量、定性数据的影响同时作用于模糊规则的前件参数和后件参数;为了进一步提高模型的输出精度,将自适应模糊神经推理系统的输出层替换为多项式神经网络;通过基于Gower距离的近邻传播聚类算法对改进模型进行结构辨识,确定模糊规则的初始参数。仿真实例验证了所提方法的有效性与可行性,与其他混合属性数据建模方法相比,所提方法具有较高的预测精度,可为作战指挥决策提供有效的辅助支持。