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Cost-Sensitive Parsimonious Linear Regression

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Cost-Sensitive Parsimonious Linear Regression
We examine linear regression problems where some features may only be observable at a cost (e.g., in medical domains where features may correspond to diagnostic tests that take time and costs money). This can be important in the context of data mining, in order to obtain the best predictions from the data on a limited cost budget. We define a parsimonious linear regression objective criterion that jointly minimizes prediction error and feature cost. We modify least angle regression algorithms commonly used for sparse linear regression to produce the ParLiR algorithm, which not only provides an efficient and parsimonious solution as we demonstrate empirically, but it also provides formal guarantees that we prove theoretically.
Robby Goetschalckx, Kurt Driessens, Scott Sanner
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where ICDM
Authors Robby Goetschalckx, Kurt Driessens, Scott Sanner
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