BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS, AND ISSUES -- BIOMETRICS: THEORY,APPLICATIONS, AND ISSUES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: SAMPLE SIZE REQUIREMENTS FOR EVALUATING INTERVENTION EFFECTS IN THREE-LEVEL CLUSTER RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Principles of Statistical Power Calculation -- 3. Mixed Effects Linear Model for Three-Level Data -- 4 Hypothesis (I): Overall Main Intervention Effects -- 5. Hypothesis (II): Time-by-Interaction Effects -- 6. Hypothesis (III): Intervention Effects at the End of Trial -- 7. Summary and Applications -- 8. Discussion -- References -- Chapter 2: AMODIFIED LOCALLY LINEAR DISCRIMINANT EMBEDDING FOR TUMOR CLASSIFICATION -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Locally Linear Embedding (LLE) -- 3. Noise Influence upon Manifold Learning -- 4. Modified Locally Linear Discriminant Embedding -- 5. Results and Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: FUSION APPROACH FOR IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE IN VOICE-BIOMETRICS -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fundamentals of Fusion -- 3. Feature Level Fusion in Speaker Recognition -- 4. Matching-Score Level Fusion in Speaker Recognition -- 5. Decision-Making Level Fusion in Speaker Recognition -- 6. Evaluation -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4: FUSION OF LIGHTING INSENSITIVE APPROACHES FOR ILLUMINATION ROBUST FACE RECOGNITION -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of System Architecture -- 3. Benchmark Databases -- 4. Experimental Results -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: ATWO-PART GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELLING APPROACH TO ANALYZE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OUTCOMES -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Physical Activity Assessment -- 3. Two-Part Generalized Linear Mixed Models -- 4. Example -- 5. Discussion -- Acknowledgment -- Appendix.

References -- Chapter 6: BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION PARADIGM: TOWARDS PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY PROTECTION∗ -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Biometric Identification with Quantized Biometric Data in Clear -- 3. Security Model -- 4. Technical Ingredients -- 5. Secure Identification Protocols -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: THE EFFICIENCY OF SYSTEMATIC DESIGNS IN UNREPLICATED FIELD TRIALS -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries -- 3. The Systematic Designs Used and Their Efficiencies -- 4. Efficiency and Robustness of the Systematic Designs for Example 1 -- 5. Efficiency and Robustness of Systematic Designs for Example 2 -- 6. Relationships Between Selection Probabilities and Criteria Values -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- INDEX.