Using bayesian priors to combine classifiers for adaptive filtering

Proceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 345-352

  Zhang, Yi ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias variance; Information Filtering; Logistic Regression

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN PRIORS; BIAS VARIANCE; INFORMATION FILTERING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 8644277351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1008992.1009052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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