Who supported Obama in 2012? Ecological inference through distribution regression

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 289-298

  Flaxman, Seth R ^a   Wang, Yu Xiang ^a   Smola, Alexander J ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution regression; Gaussian processes; Kernel methods; Machine learning; Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA MINING; ECOLOGY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LEARNING SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; VECTOR SPACES;

DISTRIBUTION REGRESSION; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; KERNEL METHODS; KERNEL RIDGE REGRESSIONS; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; SPATIAL COVARIANCE FUNCTIONS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84954138154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2783258.2783300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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