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ENVSOFT
2007
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Automated estimation and analyses of meteorological drought characteristics from monthly rainfall data
The paper describes a new software package for automated estimation, display and analyses of various drought indices – continuous functions of precipitation that allow quantitat...
V. U. Smakhtin, D. A. Hughes
NIPS
2003
15 years 2 months ago
AUC Optimization vs. Error Rate Minimization
The area under an ROC curve (AUC) is a criterion used in many applications to measure the quality of a classification algorithm. However, the objective function optimized in most...
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri
NIPS
2001
15 years 2 months ago
Estimating Car Insurance Premia: a Case Study in High-Dimensional Data Inference
Estimating insurance premia from data is a difficult regression problem for several reasons: the large number of variables, many of which are discrete, and the very peculiar shape...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, J...
AAAI
2004
15 years 2 months ago
On the Optimality of Probability Estimation by Random Decision Trees
Random decision tree is an ensemble of decision trees. The feature at any node of a tree in the ensemble is chosen randomly from remaining features. A chosen discrete feature on a...
Wei Fan
CEC
2011
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Stochastic Natural Gradient Descent by estimation of empirical covariances
—Stochastic relaxation aims at finding the minimum of a fitness function by identifying a proper sequence of distributions, in a given model, that minimize the expected value o...
Luigi Malagò, Matteo Matteucci, Giovanni Pi...