: Appraisal of companies is an important business activity. We mainly apply Bayesian networks for this classification task for Japanese electric company data. Firstly, few standard...
We prove an extrapolation theorem for the nonlinear m-term approximation with respect to a system of functions satisfying very mild conditions. This theorem allows us to prove end...
Consider the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) of estimating an arbitrary random variable from its observation contaminated by Gaussian noise. The MMSE can be regarded as a function...
Probability trees (or Probability Estimation Trees, PET’s) are decision trees with probability distributions in the leaves. Several alternative approaches for learning probabilit...
Daan Fierens, Jan Ramon, Hendrik Blockeel, Maurice...
Empirical divergence maximization is an estimation method similar to empirical risk minimization whereby the Kullback-Leibler divergence is maximized over a class of functions tha...