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Algorithmic learning in a random world

Title
Algorithmic learning in a random world / Vladimir Vovk, Alexander Gammerman, Glenn Shafer.
Author
Vovk, Vladimir, 1960-
Publication
New York : Springer, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Gammerman, A. (Alexander)
  • Shafer, Glenn, 1946-
Description
xiv, 324 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"Researchers in computer science, statistics, and artificial intelligence will find the book an authoritative and rigorous treatment of some of the most promising new developments in machine learning. Practitioners and students in all areas of research that use quantitative prediction or machine learning will learn about important new methods."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Prediction theory
  • Algorithms
  • Stochastic processes
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-316) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Conformal prediction -- 3. Classification with conformal predictors -- 4. Modifications of conformal predictors -- 5. Probabilistic prediction I : impossibility results -- 6. Probabilistic prediction II : Venn predictors -- 7. Beyond exchangeability -- 8. On-line compression modeling I : conformal prediction -- 9. On-line compression modeling II : Venn prediction -- 10. Perspectives and contrasts -- App. A. Probability theory -- App. B. Data sets.
ISBN
  • 0387001522 (acid-free paper)
  • 0387250611 (eBK)
LCCN
  • 2005042556
  • 9780387001524
  • 9780387250618
OCLC
  • ocm57579438
  • SCSB-5201251
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries