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Here we propose a probabilistic model for determining link formation, using Naïve Bayes Classifier on nontopological attribute values of nodes, in a social network. The proposed model gives a score which helps to determine the relationship strength in a non-formed link. In addition to Naïve Bayes Classifier, weighted Average of the Attribute value match helps to determine the friendship score o...

MOTIVATION A major problem of pattern classification is estimation of the Bayes error when only small samples are available. One way to estimate the Bayes error is to design a classifier based on some classification rule applied to sample data, estimate the error of the designed classifier, and then use this estimate as an estimate of the Bayes error. Relative to the Bayes error, the expected e...

longitudinal  study  plays  an  important  role  in  the  epidemiological,  clinical,  and  social  science studies. in these kinds of studies, every individual is observed frequently during a period of time. the statistical analysis of longitudinal presents special opportunities  and challenges. the repeated outcomes for one individual tend to be correlated among themselves also one of the pro...

Artificial neural networks have been successfully applied to a variety of machine learning tasks, including image recognition, semantic segmentation, and machine translation. However, few studies fully investigated ensembles of artificial neural networks. In this work, we investigated multiple widely used ensemble methods, including unweighted averaging, majority voting, the Bayes Optimal Class...

A major inference task in Bayesian networks is explaining why some variables are observed in their particular states using a set of target variables. Existing methods for solving this problem often generate explanations that are either too simple (underspecified) or too complex (overspecified). In this paper, we introduce a method called Most Relevant Explanation (MRE) which finds a partial ins...