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KDD
2007
ACM
138views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
High-quantile modeling for customer wallet estimation and other applications
In this paper we discuss the important practical problem of customer wallet estimation, i.e., estimation of potential spending by customers (rather than their expected spending). ...
Claudia Perlich, Saharon Rosset, Richard D. Lawren...
SODA
1997
ACM
171views Algorithms» more  SODA 1997»
13 years 6 months ago
A Practical Approximation Algorithm for the LMS Line Estimator
The problem of fitting a straight line to a finite collection of points in the plane is an important problem in statistical estimation. Robust estimators are widely used because...
David M. Mount, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Kathleen Roma...
MA
2010
Springer
131views Communications» more  MA 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Functional nonparametric estimation of conditional extreme quantiles
Abstract − We address the estimation of quantiles from heavy-tailed distributions when functional covariate information is available and in the case where the order of the quanti...
Laurent Gardes, Stéphane Girard, Alexandre ...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Tracking Quantiles of Network Data Streams with Dynamic Operations
— Quantiles are very useful in characterizing the data distribution of an evolving dataset in the process of data mining or network monitoring. The method of Stochastic Approxima...
Jin Cao, Li (Erran) Li, Aiyou Chen, Tian Bu
WSC
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Quantile and histogram estimation
This paper discusses implementation of a sequential procedure to construct proportional half-width confidence intervals for a simulation estimator of the steady-state quantiles an...
E. Jack Chen, W. David Kelton