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MCFNS
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
The role of misclassification in estimating proportions and an estimator of misclassification
Dot grids are often used to estimate the proportion of land cover belonging to some class in an aerial photograph. Interpreter misclassification is an often-ignored source of error...
Patrick L. Zimmerman, Greg C. Liknes
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Finding the bias and prestige of nodes in networks based on trust scores
Many real-life graphs such as social networks and peer-topeer networks capture the relationships among the nodes by using trust scores to label the edges. Important usage of such ...
Abhinav Mishra, Arnab Bhattacharya
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Characterizing search intent diversity into click models
Modeling a user’s click-through behavior in click logs is a challenging task due to the well-known position bias problem. Recent advances in click models have adopted the examin...
Botao Hu, Yuchen Zhang, Weizhu Chen, Gang Wang, Qi...
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Here, there, and everywhere: correlated online behaviors can lead to overestimates of the effects of advertising
Measuring the causal effects of online advertising (adfx) on user behavior is important to the health of the WWW publishing industry. In this paper, using three controlled experi...
Randall A. Lewis, Justin M. Rao, David H. Reiley
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 1 months ago
Rules of Thumb for Information Acquisition from Large and Redundant Data
We develop an abstract model of information acquisition from redundant data. We assume a random sampling process from data which contain information with bias and are interested in...
Wolfgang Gatterbauer
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
The missing links: bugs and bug-fix commits
Empirical studies of software defects rely on links between bug databases and program code repositories. This linkage is typically based on bug-fixes identified in developer-enter...
Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Pr...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Verification Under Increasing Dimensionality
Verification decisions are often based on second order statistics estimated from a set of samples. Ongoing growth of computational resources allows for considering more and more fe...
Anne Hendrikse, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis, Luuk J. Sp...
JCT
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Avoider-Enforcer: The rules of the game
An Avoider-Enforcer game is played by two players, called Avoider and Enforcer, on a hypergraph F ⊆ 2X . The players claim previously unoccupied elements of the board X in turns...
Dan Hefetz, Michael Krivelevich, Milos Stojakovic,...
ML
1998
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Learning from Examples and Membership Queries with Structured Determinations
It is well known that prior knowledge or bias can speed up learning, at least in theory. It has proved di cult to make constructive use of prior knowledge, so that approximately c...
Prasad Tadepalli, Stuart J. Russell
JAIR
2000
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A Model of Inductive Bias Learning
A major problem in machine learning is that of inductive bias: how to choose a learner's hypothesis space so that it is large enough to contain a solution to the problem bein...
Jonathan Baxter