LUDIA: An aggregate-constrained low-rank reconstruction algorithm to leverage publicly released health data

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 55-64

  Park, Yubin ^a   Ghosh, Joydeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

data aggregation; low rank approximation; multi level model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907024832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2623330.2623659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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