The availability of large volumes of data is a key requirement in the development of efficient, robust, and advanced machine learning based prediction models. This paper introduces the ImageNet ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 169, No. 1 (2006), pp. 97-114 (18 pages) The paper investigates a Bayesian hierarchical model for the analysis of ...

Hierarchical data analyses in different disciplines are reviewed to compare statistical applications of the Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM) software and the SAS MIXED procedure. Similar features of ...