Parsimonious Gaussian Mixture Models
McNicholas and Murphy (2008) <doi:10.1007/s11222-008-9056-0>, McNicholas (2010) <doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2009.11.006>, McNicholas and Murphy (2010) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq498>. …

Rotation Invariance Neural Network
Rotation invariance and translation invariance have great values in image recognition tasks. In this paper, we bring a new architecture in convolutional neural network (CNN) named cyclic convolutional layer to achieve rotation invariance in 2-D symbol recognition. We can also get the position and orientation of the 2-D symbol by the network to achieve detection purpose for multiple non-overlap target. Last but not least, this architecture can achieve one-shot learning in some cases using those invariance. …

Weighted Effect Coding
Weighted effect coding refers to a specific coding matrix to include factor variables in generalised linear regression models. With weighted effect coding, the effect for each category represents the deviation of that category from the weighted mean (which corresponds to the sample mean). This technique has particularly attractive properties when analysing observational data, that commonly are unbalanced. The wec package is introduced, that provides functions to apply weighted effect coding to factor variables, and to interactions between (a.) a factor variable and a continuous variable and between (b.) two factor variables. …