mobi, epub |rus | 2015-03-26 | Author:Masashi Sugiyama

86 Statistical Reinforcement Learning 1 10 Gaussian density True Laplacian density Sample with noise 8 0.8 6 0.6 4 2 0.4 Immediate reward 0 0.2 −2 −4 0 0.55 1.5 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Victor M. Panaretos

such that T is not a constant function. Assume that the parameter space is an open set (recall that, among others, this implies that the function γ(⋅) is twice differentiable). ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Cathy O'Neil

In 2008, just as the great recession was approaching, a San Francisco company called Cataphora marketed a software system that rated tech workers on a number of metrics, including their ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-10 | Author:Daniel J. Levitin

Cherry-picking Our brains are built to make stories as they take in the vastness of the world with billions of events happening every second. There are apt to be some ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-01-22 | Author:Craig S. Fleisher & Bensoussan, Babette E. [Bensoussan, Babette E.]

Weaknesses and Limitations One of the primary criticisms of historiographical analysis is its perceived lack of objectivity. Much of the process involves the individual’s selection of facts designed to support ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Douglas W. Hubbard

By now you should have a pretty good idea of what you need to observe and, generally, how to observe it in order to make your measurement. Now we can ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Kaiser Fung

Why Do Marketers Send You Mixed Messages? The mass retailer Target, with the famed red bull’s-eye logo, made the front page of New York Times Magazine in 2012 with an ...

mobi |eng | 2016-09-18 | Author:Conrad Carlberg

Confirming the Regression Equation If you want it, Excel will display on the chart the equation that’s behind the polynomial trendline. At the bottom of the Trendline Options pane is ...

epub |eng | | Author:Donald Sull

It is helpful to list more than one area for improvement, as some will be more suitable for simple rules than others. Three to five is typically enough to get ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:Kaiser Fung

Some dismiss false negatives as victimless errors. Not true. As Michael Johnson, the superlative sprinter with the golden Nike spikes, wrote, “the athletes who finished behind [the winner who cheated] ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Michael J. Mauboussin

Source: Analysis by author. The message that correlation does not equal causality is also relevant. A theory is an explanation of cause and effect, and statistics is a means to ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell [Sowell, Thomas]

Statistical Trends One of the problems with comparisons of national output over some span of time is the arbitrary choice of the year to use as the beginning of the ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1900-12-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell

Risk and Time To take an extreme example of how risk can vary over time, while a dollar invested in bonds in 1801 would be worth nearly a thousand dollars ...