Relative Efficiency of Animals as Machines

Relative Margin Machines

In classification problems, Support Vector Machines maximize the margin of separation between two classes. While the paradigm has been successful, the solution obtained by SVMs is dominated by the directions with large data spread and biased to separate the classes by cutting along large spread directions. This article proposes a novel formulation to overcome such sensitivity and maximizes the ...

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Relative Cost Random Access Machines

Asymptotic relative efficiency.

Asymptotic Relative Efficiency ] was pleased to read "Promise in Nonparametrics" by Royeen and Seaver (March, ] 986). As the authors state, analysis of data by non parametric methods when the strong assumptions for parametric counterparts cannot be met provides the researcher with effective statistical procedures that may be more realistic and valid in a given situation. It is also interesting ...

Asymptotic relative efficiency of estimators

For statistical estimation problems, it is typical and even desirable that more than one reasonable estimator can arise for consideration. One natural and time-honored approach for choosing an estimator is simply to compare the sample sizes at which the competing estimators meet a given standard of performance. This depends upon the chosen measure of performance and upon the particular populati...