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Welcome to my website. My name is Daniel Schmidt and I am a Research Fellow with the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University. My main research interests are statistics and in particular, Minimum Encoding methods for statistical inference.
Publications
Journals:
"Universal Models for the Exponential Distribution", D.F.Schmidt and E.Makalic, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 3087-3090, 2009.
"Minimum Message Length Shrinkage Estimation", E.Makalic and D.F.Schmidt, Statistics & Probability Letters, Vol. 79, No. 9, pp. 1155-1161, 2009.
Technical Reports:
"Shrinkage and Denoising by Minimum Message Length", D.F.Schmidt and E.Makalic, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Technical Report 2008/230, 2008
"Minimum Message Length Shrinkage Estimation", E.Makalic and D.F.Schmidt, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Technical Report 2008/229, 2008
"MMLD Inference of the Poisson and Geometric Models", D.F.Schmidt and E.Makalic, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Technical Report 2008/220, 2008
"Minimum Message Length Inference and Parameter Estimation of Autoregressive and Moving Average Models", D.F.Schmidt, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Technical Report 2006/206, 2007
"Efficient Linear Regression by Minimum Message Length", E.Makalic and D.F.Schmidt, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Technical Report 2006/201
Conferences:
"MML Invariant Linear Regression", D.F.Schmidt and E. Makalic, The 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) (to appear), Melbourne, Australia "Adaptive Control of a Hydraulic System with MML Inferred RBF Networks", D.F.Schmidt, A.P.Paplinski and G.S.Lowe, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2005), Barcelona, Spain, IEEE, pp 2379-2385"On the Design of a Hydraulically Actuated Finger For Dextrous Manipulation", D.F.Schmidt, A.P.Paplinski and G.S.Lowe, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA-2004), New Orleans, LA, USA, 26 April - 1 May 2004, IEEE, USA, pp 1239-1244
Talks and Presentations:
"The Minimum Message Length Principle for Inductive Inference", D.F.Schmidt, Helsinki University, September 2009 (video available here)
"Model Selection Tutorial #1: Akaike’s Information Criterion", D.F.Schmidt and E.Makalic, Monash University, December 2008
On the right you can see some lovely countryside just outside Freiburg, Baden, Germany.
If you wish to contact me, my details are:
| Position: | Research Fellow |
| Campus, Building, Room: | Clayton, 63, 214 |
| Phone (internal): | 95 555 |
| Phone (external): | (03) 9905 9555 |
| Email: | Daniel dot Schmidt [at] infotech dot monash dot edu dot au |