Abstract #300343

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300343
Activity Number: 459
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Thursday, August 7, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #300343
Title: The (Nonstandard) Multicategory Support Vector Machine
Author(s): Grace Wahba*+
Companies: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Address: 1210 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI, 53706-1613,
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Abstract:

After briefly describing the standard two-category support vector machine, we describe the nonstandard, multicategory support vector machine, which includes adjustments for nonrepresentative samples and unequal misclassification costs. Examples: computation, tuning, and relations with other regularization-based, large-margin classifiers.

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