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     Paulo Gonçalves Inria senior researcher in the project OCKHAM A joint team of Inria Lyon and ENS Lyon (LIP)  | 
| Signal Processing applied to Networks | ||
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Time-Frequency Analysis  Time-Scale Analysis  | 
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Wavelets and Fractals Wavelets History by I. Daubechies  | 
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| Wavelets and Statistics | 
Description:  Stable distributions are characterized by four parameters which can
                      be estimated via a number of methods, and although approximate maximum likelihood estimation
                      techniques have been proposed, they are computationally intensive and difficult to implement.
                      This article describes a fast, wavelet-based, regression-type method for estimating the
                      parameters of a stable distribution. Fourier domain representations, combined with a wavelet
                      multiresolution approach, are shown to be effective and highly efficient tools for inference
                      in stable law families. Our procedures are illustrated and compared with other estimation methods
                      using simulated data from stable distributions and an application to a real data example is explored.
                      One novel aspect of this work is that here wavelets are being used to solve a parametric problem
                      rather than a nonparametric one, which is the more typical context in wavelet applications.
                       Joint work with: Anestis Antoniadis (INPG-IMAG), Andrey Feuerverger (Univ. of Toronto)  | 
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