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COLT
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Performance Guarantees for Regularized Maximum Entropy Density Estimation
Abstract. We consider the problem of estimating an unknown probability distribution from samples using the principle of maximum entropy (maxent). To alleviate overfitting with a v...
Miroslav Dudík, Steven J. Phillips, Robert ...
CSDA
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Robust model selection using fast and robust bootstrap
Robust model selection procedures control the undue influence that outliers can have on the selection criteria by using both robust point estimators and a bounded loss function wh...
Matias Salibian-Barrera, Stefan Van Aelst
CORR
2010
Springer
136views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Comparing Prediction Market Structures, With an Application to Market Making
Ensuring sufficient liquidity is one of the key challenges for designers of prediction markets. Various market making algorithms have been proposed in the literature and deployed ...
Aseem Brahma, Sanmay Das, Malik Magdon-Ismail
CCE
2004
13 years 5 months ago
New measures and procedures to manage financial risk with applications to the planning of gas commercialization in Asia
This paper presents some new concepts and procedures for financial risk management. To complement the use of value at risk a new concept, upside potential or opportunity value as ...
Ahmed Aseeri, Miguel J. Bagajewicz
IOR
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Dynamic Pricing with a Prior on Market Response
We study a problem of dynamic pricing faced by a vendor with limited inventory, uncertain about demand, aiming to maximize expected discounted revenue over an infinite time horiz...
Vivek F. Farias, Benjamin Van Roy