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367 Tue, 8/6/2013, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-514b
New Methods for Classification — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Mining
Chair(s): Chong Zhang, UNC-CH
10:35 AM Probability-Enhanced Sufficient Dimension Reduction for Binary Classification Seung Jun Shin, North Carolina State University ; Yichao Wu, NC State University ; Hao Helen Zhang, North Carolina State University ; Yufeng Liu, The University of North Carolina
10:50 AM Macrolevel Discriminant Analysis: An Extension of Linear Discriminant Analysis for Nested Data Jose-Miguel Yamal, UT School of Public Health ; E. Neely Atkinson, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Getie Zewdie, UT School of Public Health ; Dennis Cox, Rice University
11:05 AM Multi-TGDR: An Extension of the Threshold Gradient Descent Regularization for Multiclass Classification of Microarray Experiments Mayte Suarez-Farinas, Rockefeller University ; Suyan Tian, First Hospital of the Jilin University
11:20 AM An Algorithm for Binary and Multi-Class Cancer Classification and Informative Genes Selection Haiyan Wang, Kansas State University
11:35 AM On the Characterization of a Class of Fisher-Consistent Loss Functions and Its Application to Boosting for Hierarchical Outcomes Matey Neykov, Harvard University ; Tianxi Cai, Harvard University
11:50 AM Evaluating Discriminant Performance of a Semi-Supervised Linear Discriminant Analysis Against a Supervised One for Heteroscedastic Normal Populations Kenichi Hayashi, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
12:05 PM High-Dimensional Quadratic Discriminant Analysis: A Convex Optimization Approach Lucy Xia, Princeton University ; Tracy Ke, Princeton University ; Jianqing Fan, Princeton University



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