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LAGO: a computationally efficient approach for statistical detection

dc.contributor.authorSu, Wanhua
dc.contributor.authorZhu, Mu
dc.contributor.authorChipman, Hugh A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-02
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-31T01:15:21Z
dc.date.available2022-05-31T01:15:21Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractWe study a general class of statistical detection problems where the underlying objective is to detect items belonging to a rare class from a very large database. We propose a computationally efficient method to achieve this goal. Our method consists of two steps. In the first step we estimate the density function of the rare class alone with an adaptive bandwidth kernel density estimator. The adaptive choice of the bandwidth is inspired by the ancient Chinese board game known today as Go. In the second step we adjust this density locally depending on the density of the background class nearby. We show that the amount of adjustment needed in the second step is approximately equal to the adaptive bandwidth from the first step, which gives us additional computational savings. We name the resulting method LAGO, for “locally adjusted Go-kernel density estimator.” We then apply LAGO to a real drug discovery dataset and compare its performance with a number of existing and popular methods.
dc.description.urihttps://library.macewan.ca/full-record/bth/23224361
dc.identifier.citationZhu, M., Su, W., & Chipman, H. A. (2006). Lago: a computationally efficient approach for statistical detection. Technometrics, 48(2), 193-205.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1198/004017005000000643
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/1739
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectadaptive bandwidth kernel density estimator
dc.subjectaverage precision
dc.subjectdrug discovery
dc.subjectnearest neighbor
dc.subjectorder statistic
dc.subjectradial basis function network,
dc.subjectsupport vector machine
dc.titleLAGO: a computationally efficient approach for statistical detectionen
dc.typeArticle

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