
Los métodos semilineales de inferencia estadística hacen uso de las técnicas lineales sobre transformaciones de las observaciones. En esta conferencia se sistematizan las opciones para proceder de esa manera, resaltando las ventajas de las transformaciones implícitas que conducen a los métodos basados en núcleos y los beneficios de considerar las analogías de éstos con sus correspondientes versiones lineales.
Aníbal R. Figuerias Vidal received the Telecommunication Engineer degree from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) in 1973 (ranked number 1; National Award to graduation) and the Doctor degree (Honors) from Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona (Spain) in 1976. He is Professor of signal theory and communications with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). His research interests are digital signal processing, digital communications, neural networks, and learning theory. He has (co)authored more than 300 journal and conference papers in these areas. Dr. Figueiras received an "Honoris Causa" Doctorate degree in 1999 from Universidad de VIgo (Spain). He is currently General Secretary of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain.