We analyse the corpus of user relationships of the Slashdot technology news site. The data was collected from the Slashdot Zoo feature where users of the website can tag other user...
—Identification of nodes relevant to a given node in a relational network is a basic problem in network analysis with great practical importance. Most existing network analysis ...
Many of the same modeling methods used in natural languages, speci cally Markov models and HMM's, have also been applied to biological sequence analysis. In recent years, nat...
We consider the supervised learning of a binary classifier from noisy observations. We use smooth boosting to linearly combine abstaining hypotheses, each of which maps a subcube...
Background: Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Consequently, identification of clinically relevant biomarkers for the early detect...