nips6 paper on ss-anova in archive

[Grace Wahba]

Dear Colleagues
  Our paper for the 1993 Neural Information Processing 
Society (NIPS) Proceedings is in the neuroprose archive 
under

wahba.nips6.ps.Z

Title: Structured Machine Learning For `Soft' Classification 
with Smoothing Spline ANOVA and Stacked Tuning, Testing
and Evaluation. 

Authors: G. Wahba, Y. Wang, C. Gu, R. Klein and B. Klein

              Summary

We describe the use of smoothing spline analysis of variance 
(SS-ANOVA) in the penalized log likelihood context, 
for learning (estimating) the probability 
$p$ of a `$1$' outcome, given a training set with 
attribute vectors and 0-1 outcomes.
$p$ is of the form $p(t) = e^{f(t)}/(1+e^{f(t)})$, where, 
if $t$ is a vector of attributes, $f$ is learned as a sum of smooth 
functions of one attribute plus a sum of smooth functions 
of two attributes, etc. The smoothing parameters governing 
$f$ are obtained by an iterative unbiased risk or iterative GCV method. 
Confidence intervals for these estimates are available. 
The method is applied to estimate the risk of progression 
of diabetic retinopathy given predictor variables of 
age, body mass index and glycosylated hemoglobin.

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