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Abstract #301875

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Activity Number:	159
Type:	Invited
Date/Time:	Monday, August 4, 2003 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor:	IMS
Abstract - #301875
Title:	Distance Weighted Discrimination
Author(s):	J. Stephen Marron*+ and Michael J. Todd
Companies:	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Cornell University
Address:	Dept. of Statistics, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3260,
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Abstract:	High-dimension, low-sample-size statistical analysis is becoming increasingly important in a wide range of applied functional data contexts. In such situations, it is seen that the appealing discrimination method called the support vector machine can be improved. The revealing concept is "data piling" at the margin. This leads naturally to the development of "distance weighted discrimination," which also is based on modern computationally intensive optimization methods and seems to give improved "generalizability."

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