JSM 2011 Online Program

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236 ! Mon, 8/1/2011, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-A105
Ensemble Methods — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Graphics
Chair(s): Suhrid Balakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research
2:05 PM Pruning Ensemble Models for Classification Problems on Large Data Sets Damir Spisic, IBM Research ; Fan Li, IBM Research China ; Jing Xu, IBM Research China
2:20 PM A Quadratic Programming Algorithm for Reducing the Size and Improving the Performance of an Ensemble Model Jie Xu, University of Alabama ; J. Brian Gray, University of Alabama
2:35 PM On the Insufficiency of the Large Margins Theory in Explaining Boosting and Ensemble Performance Waldyn Martinez Cid, University of Alabama ; J. Brian Gray, University of Alabama
2:50 PM Determining Fitness Function Parameters for GA-Boost Dong-Yop Oh, University of Alabama ; J. Brian Gray, University of Alabama
3:05 PM Strategies for Extracting Knowledge from Ensemble Classifiers Based on Generalized Additive Models Koen W. De Bock, IESEG School of Management
3:20 PM Gibbs Ensembles for Nearly Compatible and Incompatible Conditional Models Shyh-Huei Chen, Wake Forest University School of Medicine ; Edward H. Ip, Wake Forest University School of Medicine ; Yuchung J. Wang, Rutgers University
3:35 PM Floor Discussion



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