Data Mining - Rare Event

Thomas Bayes

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A rare event is always rare in function of the population being studied.

In high dimensions, all cases are edge cases

Sam Ross

The rate of an event is related to the probability of an event occurring in some small subinterval (of time, space or otherwise).

Example

  • click-through rate prediction

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Thomas Bayes
Statistics - (Base rate fallacy|Bonferroni's principle)

Every accurate (model|test) can be useless as detection tools if the studied case is sufficiently rare among the general population. The data model will produce too many false positives or false negatives....



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