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Modeling the variability of rankings
Peter Hall, Hugh Miller
For better or for worse, rankings of institutions, such as universities, schools and hospitals, play an important role today in conveying information about relative performance. Th…
Local polynomial regression and variable selection
Hugh Miller, Peter Hall
We propose a method for incorporating variable selection into local polynomial regression. This can improve the accuracy of the regression by extending the bandwidth in directions…
Using the bootstrap to quantify the authority of an empirical ranking
Peter Hall, Hugh Miller
The bootstrap is a popular and convenient method for quantifying the authority of an empirical ordering of attributes, for example of a ranking of the performance of institutions o…
Feature selection when there are many influential features
Peter Hall, Jiashun Jin, Hugh Miller
Recent discussion of the success of feature selection methods has argued that focusing on a relatively small number of features has been counterproductive. Instead, it is suggested…