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20062021
most citedClassifier Technology and the Illusion of Progress

719 citations · 1.3k across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

stat.ME2021

Trustworthiness of statistical inference

David J. Hand

We examine the role of trustworthiness and trust in statistical inference, arguing that it is the extent of trustworthiness in inferential statistical tools which enables trust in…

cs.LG2020

F*: An Interpretable Transformation of the F-measure

David J. Hand, Peter Christen, Nishadi Kirielle

The F-measure, also known as the F1-score, is widely used to assess the performance of classification algorithms. However, some researchers find it lacking in intuitive interpretat…

stat.ME2014★ 33 cited

Wonderful Examples, but Let's not Close Our Eyes

David J. Hand

The papers in this collection are superb illustrations of the power of modern Bayesian methods. They give examples of problems which are well suited to being tackled using such met…

stat.ML2012★ 408 cited

Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Charts for Detecting Concept Drift

Gordon J. Ross, Niall M. Adams, Dimitris K. Tasoulis +1

Classifying streaming data requires the development of methods which are computationally efficient and able to cope with changes in the underlying distribution of the stream, a phe…

stat.ME2012★ 4 cited

A better Beta for the H measure of classification performance

David J. Hand, Christoforos Anagnostopoulos

The area under the ROC curve is widely used as a measure of performance of classification rules. However, it has recently been shown that the measure is fundamentally incoherent, i…

stat.ME2011

Discussion of "Bayesian Models and Methods in Public Policy and Government Settings" by S. E. Fienberg

David J. Hand

Fienberg convincingly demonstrates that Bayesian models and methods represent a powerful approach to squeezing illumination from data in public policy settings. However, no school…