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ENVSOFT
2007
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Automated estimation and analyses of meteorological drought characteristics from monthly rainfall data
The paper describes a new software package for automated estimation, display and analyses of various drought indices – continuous functions of precipitation that allow quantitat...
V. U. Smakhtin, D. A. Hughes
NIPS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
AUC Optimization vs. Error Rate Minimization
The area under an ROC curve (AUC) is a criterion used in many applications to measure the quality of a classification algorithm. However, the objective function optimized in most...
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri
NIPS
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Estimating Car Insurance Premia: a Case Study in High-Dimensional Data Inference
Estimating insurance premia from data is a difficult regression problem for several reasons: the large number of variables, many of which are discrete, and the very peculiar shape...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, J...
AAAI
2004
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On the Optimality of Probability Estimation by Random Decision Trees
Random decision tree is an ensemble of decision trees. The feature at any node of a tree in the ensemble is chosen randomly from remaining features. A chosen discrete feature on a...
Wei Fan
CEC
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Stochastic Natural Gradient Descent by estimation of empirical covariances
—Stochastic relaxation aims at finding the minimum of a fitness function by identifying a proper sequence of distributions, in a given model, that minimize the expected value o...
Luigi Malagò, Matteo Matteucci, Giovanni Pi...