With explanatory covariates, the standard analysis for competing risks data involves modeling
the cause-specific hazard functions via a proportional hazards assumption. Unfortunately, …

A vector quantizer is a system for mapping a sequence of continuous or discrete vectors into
a digital sequence suitable for communication over or storage in a digital channel. The goal …

This book is an updated version of the information theory classic, first published in 1990.
About one-third of the book is devoted to Shannon source and channel coding theorems; the …

… The chapter strongly overlaps portions Chapter 2 of Gersho and Gray [30] and is intended
to provide the necessary prerequisites and establish notation. The reader is assumed to be …

Herb Caen, a popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, recently quoted a Voice of
America press release as saying that it was reorganizing in order to" eliminate duplication …

The history of the theory and practice of quantization dates to 1948, although similar ideas
had appeared in the literature as long ago as 1898. The fundamental role of quantization in …

… my brother Pete, who taught me how to sail, helped me to survive my undergraduate and
early graduate years, was a big fan of my Web books about our grandmother Amy Heard Gray, …

In this paper, for right censored competing risks data, a class of tests developed for comparing
the cumulative incidence of a particular type of failure among different groups. The tests …

The fundamental theorems on the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues, inverses, and products
of banded Toeplitz matrices and Toeplitz matrices with absolutely summable elements are …

Background Bevacizumab, a monoclonal antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor,
has been shown to benefit patients with a variety of cancers. Methods Between July 2001 …