On qualitative robustness of support vector machines

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 993-1007

  Hable, Robert ^a   Christmann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Machine learning; Nonparametric regression; Qualitative robustness; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954809840     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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