Valid predictions with confidence estimation in an air pollution problem

Progress in Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-243

  Ivina, Olga ^a,b   Nouretdinov, Ilia ^c   Gammerman, Alex ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Conformal predictors; GIS; Kriging; Ridge regression

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; CONFIDENCE MACHINE; CONFORMAL PREDICTORS; KRIGING; METROPOLITAN REGIONS; PROBABILITY OF ERRORS; RIDGE REGRESSION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85013909606     PISSN: 21926352     EISSN: 21926360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13748-012-0018-6     Document Type: Article

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