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David MacKay

- Verified email at mrao.cam.ac.uk - Cited by 78442

D. Scott Mackay

- Verified email at buffalo.edu - Cited by 6518

Bioaccumulation of persistent organic chemicals: mechanisms and models

D Mackay, A Fraser - Environmental pollution, 2000 - Elsevier
A review is presented of bioaccumulation of organic substances in organisms, especially
fish, including the incentives for developing a tiered predictive approach for addressing the …

Probable networks and plausible predictions-a review of practical Bayesian methods for supervised neural networks

DJC MacKay - Network: computation in neural systems, 1995 - iopscience.iop.org
… Second, to evaluate P(D[Ec), we must similarly say what values the fractions c, d and e
might take on. (I choose to represent these numbers as fractions rather than real numbers …

Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

…, G Hoch, A Kahmen, T Klein, DS Mackay… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Drought-associated woody-plant mortality has been increasing in most regions with multi-decadal
records and is projected to increase in the future, impacting terrestrial climate forcing, …

[BOOK][B] Information theory, inference and learning algorithms

DJC MacKay - 2003 - books.google.com
… Richly illustrated, filled with worked examples and over 400 exercises, some with
detailed solutions, David MacKay's groundbreaking book is ideal for self-learning and for …

Good error-correcting codes based on very sparse matrices

DJC MacKay - IEEE transactions on Information Theory, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… (MN stands for MacKay–Neal; MacKay and Neal generalized MN codes to Gallager
codes, then realized … In Section II-D we evaluate a tighter numerical lower bound for …

A practical Bayesian framework for backpropagation networks

DJC MacKay - Neural computation, 1992 - direct.mit.edu
… This paper makes use of the Bayesian framework for regularization and model comparison
described in the companion paper “Bayesian Interpolation” (MacKay 1992a). This framework …

Bayesian interpolation

DJC MacKay - Neural computation, 1992 - direct.mit.edu
Although Bayesian analysis has been in use since Laplace, the Bayesian method of model-comparison
has only recently been developed in depth. In this paper, the Bayesian …

[PDF][PDF] Near Shannon limit performance of low density parity check codes

DJC MacKay, RM Neal - Electronics letters, 1997 - docs.switzernet.com
We report the empirical performance of Gallager’s low density parity check codes on
Gaussian channels. We show that performance substantially better than that of standard …

[BOOK][B] Handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals

D Mackay, WY Shiu, SC Lee - 2006 - taylorfrancis.com
… invaluable contributions of Eva Webster and Ness Mackay. … Donald Mackay, born and
educated in Scotland, received his … Professor Mackay’s primary research is the study of organic …

[BOOK][B] Sustainable Energy-without the hot air

DJC MacKay - 2016 - books.google.com
The enlightening, best-selling book on understanding sustainable energy and how we can
make energy plans that add up. If you've ever wondered how much energy we use, and …