... The Convergence Rate of AdaBoost
Robert E. Schapire
Princeton University
Department of Computer Science
schapire@cs.princeton.edu
Abstract. We pose the problem of determining the rate of convergence ... variant of
AdaBoost. Zhang and Yu (2005) also give rates of convergence, but their technique requires a bound on the
step sizes α
t
. Many classic results are k...
... will be one of the
determinants of his/her incremental income. The other, the post-MBA income, is a function of the school,
the candidate, and the state of the economy (GDP growth rate, unemployment, ... analyzing the financial value of an MBA, the starting salary of the graduate is only
part of the equation. The value added by the degree is the fu...
... determine the effect of the number of the ventilation pipes on the composting rate, an
attempt was made to correlate the composting rate with the number of the perforated pipes for air supply
in the ... the
composting rate.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of the number of the perforated pipes, embedded
vertically in the com...
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The evidence using the MAE metric (se Table 3) strengthens the results reported above. The structural
EqCM performs the best of all the models at all horizons (with the exception of the ...
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dominated by the prediction failures at the end of our sample. Nevertheless, the results emphasise the
importance of the interest rate differential in the...
... all the bank and market interest rate series used. The IPS test on the null
hypothesis of a unit root cannot be rejected at the 5% significance level for either the bank rates or the
market rates, ... prices, such as wage rates, deposit rates (as price of funding) and the price of
other expenses (proxied as the ratio of other expenses to fixed assets). The third...
... bond, linkage of the active
site Ser of the protease to the carboxyl group of P
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by an
ester bond and insertion of the N-terminal part of the RCL
as strand 4 in b-sheet A (s4A) of the serpin. ... effects on the rate of latency
transition (Table 2). Therefore, besides the M at position
149, deviations from the serpin consensus in the hF/s3A-
loop of PAI-1...
... estimate of the
yield of the underlying instruments at
expiration of the options; or, in other words,
the market’s best estimate of the exercise-
settlement value at expiration, that is, off the
forward ... purchase of FVX put options
would allow the holder to profit if rates do decline
because as 5-year interest rates fall, so does the
level of FVX.
As interest ra...
... center of the enzyme. These modifications may be
attributed to either the presence of the substrate and/or a
product in the vicinity of the T2Cu active center rather than
to disruption of this ... CoCl
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0.1. The optical density, the concentrations of nitrate [17]
and nitrite [18], the pO
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and the pH of the medium were
monitored, and the...