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BMCBI
2007
14 years 10 months ago
2007
Variable importance measures for random forests have been receiving increased attention as a means of variable selection in many classification tasks in bioinformatics and relate...
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Due to the rapidly increasing availability of audio files on the Web, it is relevant to augment search engines with advanced audio search functionality. In this context, the rank...
WSC
2007
15 years 8 days ago
2007
Compounding processes, also known as perpetuities, play an important role in many applications; in particular, in time series analysis and mathematical finance. Apart from some s...
CGF
2004
14 years 9 months ago
2004
This paper presents a general variance reduction method that is a quasi-optimal combination of correlated and importance sampling. The weights of the combination are selected auto...
ETT
2002
14 years 9 months ago
2002
In this paper, a method is presented for the efficient estimation of rare-event (buffer overflow) probabilities in queueing networks using importance sampling. Unlike previously pr...