Model Monitor (M) is a software tool for studying the effect of distribution shifts the performance of machine learning algorithms. Most practical work in data mining assumes that data distributions are stationary, which is to say they do not change over time. As such, classifiers tend to be most effective when the data on which they are evaluated (test data) is similar to the data on which the...

Slides accompanying this material are available at http://clopinet.com/isabelle/ Projects/MLSS08/. We focus in the chapter on the problem of model selection. The rest of the topics covered in the class are developed in tutorials on feature selection (Guyon and Elisseeff, 2003; Guyon et al., 2006a) and causality (Guyon et al., 2007a; Guyon, 2008; Guyon et al., 2009a). Nowadays, there are many ma...

1. Efforts to understand the links between evolutionary and ecological dynamics hinge on our ability to measure and understand how genes influence phenotypes, fitness and population dynamics. Quantitative genetics provides a range of theoretical and empirical tools with which to achieve this when the relatedness between individuals within a population is known. 2. A number of recent studies hav...

ion is essential for software verification. Without abstraction, a realistic software application is usually too large to be analyzed exhaustively with a model checker. Abstraction aims to transform a program into another program that still has some key properties of the original program, but is much simpler, and therefore easier to analyze. In model checking, abstractions are used to reduce th...

Dielectric Resonator Antennas (DRAs) have received increased interest in recent years for their potential applications in microwave and millimeter wave communication systems. DRAs are normally used with the support of a ground plane. The radiation and impedance properties therefore depend not only on their physical dimensions and dielectric properties, but also on the size of the ground plane. ...

more than any other work available, better inform future students (and future medical historians) about the continuity and changes in the ways in which health and disease have been perceived throughout United States history. This book will serve as an exemplary model for complementary publications that could focus upon different temporal and geographical regions. In a sense it is surprising tha...

For the past several decades, advances in plant development, physiology, cell biology, and genetics have relied heavily on the model (or reference) plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Arabidopsis resembles other plants, including crop plants, in many but by no means all respects. Study of Arabidopsis alone provides little information on the evolutionary history of plants, evolutionary differences betwe...

Function lmodel2 computes model II simple linear regression using the following methods: major axis (MA), standard major axis (SMA), ordinary least squares (OLS), and ranged major axis (RMA). Information about these methods is available, for instance, in section 10.3.2 of Legendre and Legendre (1998) and in sections 14.13 and 15.7 of Sokal and Rohlf (1995). Parametric 95% confidence intervals a...