Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on using the LightGBM tree-based system to perform binary classification (predicting a discrete variable that ...

The differences between neural network binary classification and multinomial classification are surprisingly tricky. McCaffrey looks at two approaches to implement neural network binary classification ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We consider variable screening in high-dimensional binary classification. First, we propose nonparametric test statistics for the problem of ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 32, No. 1, Proceedings of the 1982 I.O.S. Annual Conference on Practical Bayesian Statistics (Mar. - Jun., 1983), pp.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Facebook’s explanations for how its heavily promoted AI algorithms ...

Although the economic growth literature has come a long way since the Solow-Swan model of the fifties, there is still considerable debate on the "real' or "deep" determinants of growth. This paper ...

As the 2019 mushroom foraging season approaches it’s timely to combine my thirst for knowledge about low level machine learning (ML) with a popular pastime that we enjoy here where I live. Just for ...