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stat.ML2013★ 6 cited
Weakly supervised clustering: Learning fine-grained signals from coarse labels
Stefan Wager, Alexander Blocker, Niall Cardin
Consider a classification problem where we do not have access to labels for individual training examples, but only have average labels over subpopulations. We give practical exampl…
math.ST2013★ 35 cited
The potential and perils of preprocessing: Building new foundations
Alexander W. Blocker, Xiao-Li Meng
Preprocessing forms an oft-neglected foundation for a wide range of statistical and scientific analyses. However, it is rife with subtleties and pitfalls. Decisions made in preproc…
stat.AP2013
Semi-parametric Robust Event Detection for Massive Time-Domain Databases
Alexander W Blocker, Pavlos Protopapas
The detection and analysis of events within massive collections of time-series has become an extremely important task for time-domain astronomy. In particular, many scientific inve…