We develop a theoretical analysis of generalization performances of regularized leastsquares on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces for supervised learning. We show that the concept of effective dimension of an integral operator plays a central role in the definition of a criterion for the choice of the regularization parameter as a function of the number of samples. In fact a minimax analysis is...

We show that recent results in [3] on risk bounds for regularized least-squares on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces can be straightforwardly extended to the vectorvalued regression setting. We first briefly introduce central concepts on operatorvalued kernels, then we show how risk bounds can be expressed in terms of a generalization of effective dimension. This report describes research done ...

Market prices are well known to efficiently collect and aggregate diverse information regarding the value of commodities and assets. The role of markets has been particularly suitable to pricing financial securities. This article provides an alternative application of the pricing mechanism to marketing research using pseudo-securities markets to measure preferences over new product concepts. Su...

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In April 2005, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiated the Physician Group Practice demonstration, which offers 10 large practices the opportunity to earn performance payments for improving the quality and cost-efficiency of health care delivered to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. This report is based on the proceedings of a 2006 site conference held in Baltimore ...

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