Estimating the class prior and posterior from noisy positives and unlabeled data

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 2693-2701

  Jain, Shantanu ^a   White, Martha ^a   Radivojac, Predrag ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DISCRIMINATIVE CLASSIFIERS; HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; NON-PARAMETRIC ALGORITHM; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBUST CLASSIFICATION; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

DATA MINING;

EID: 85018867328     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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