Merits to membership

Merits and Arguments Related to Circumcision

Use of Randomization to Normalize Feature Merits

Feature merits are used for feature selection in classi cation and regression as well as for decision tree generation. Commonly used merit functions exhibit a bias towards features that take a large variety of values. We present a scheme based on randomization for neutralizing this bias by normalizing the merits. The merit of a feature is normalized by division by the expected merit of a featur...

Report to the membership.

Executive Summary The Context of College Sports, 2011-12. During 2011, the landscape of intercollegiate athletics changed significantly, presenting COIA a new mix of challenges. In the area of improving the alignment of athletics with academics, the news was generally positive: significant new academic reforms were adopted by the NCAA, and evidence of the positive impact of earlier reforms bega...

The Merits of DMT

Higher Performance A DMT modem has shown in theory and practice that it can provide higher performance than a modem based on traditional SCM. Fig. 1 and 2 compare the throughput analysis of DMT and SCM in the presence of FEXT (far end crosstalk, the most common form of noise in VDSL.) This analysis was done using the assumptions in Table 1. Margin and throughput enhancements of DMT over SCM are...

Improving Policies without Measuring Merits

Performing policy iteration in dynamic programming should only require knowledge of relative rather than absolute measures of the utility of actions { what Baird (1993) calls the advantages of actions at states. Nevertheless, existing methods in dynamic programming (including Baird's) compute some form of absolute utility function. For smooth problems, advantages satisfy two di erential consist...