Is it possible to have a fairly simple calculator that, given type of data, number of samples, confidence etc. can give useful error estimates?
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > No. > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Would this make a handy Javascript calculator for the Mahout site? >> >> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > PAC learning is a basic theoretical framework. In practice, the concept >> is >> > useful, but nearly all of the theoretical bounds are no more than >> advisory >> > since they are pretty loose. >> > >> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/pac05.pdf >> >> >> >> Is this the state of the art in choosing confidence levels? Are there >> >> other techniques or rules of thumb? >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Lance Norskog >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Lance Norskog >> [email protected] >> -- Lance Norskog [email protected]
