Estimating probabilities in recommendation systems

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 471-492

  Sun, Mingxuan ^a   Lebanon, Guy ^a   Kidwell, Paul ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kernel smoothing; Ranked data; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859869952     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.01027.x     Document Type: Article

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