Credible intervalIn Bayesian statistics, a credible interval is an interval within which an unobserved parameter value falls with a particular probability. It is an interval in the domain of a posterior probability distribution or a predictive distribution. The generalisation to multivariate problems is the credible region. Credible intervals are analogous to confidence intervals and confidence regions in frequentist statistics, although they differ on a philosophical basis: Bayesian intervals treat their bounds as fixed and the estimated parameter as a random variable, whereas frequentist confidence intervals treat their bounds as random variables and the parameter as a fixed value.
Classification en classes multiplesIn machine learning and statistical classification, multiclass classification or multinomial classification is the problem of classifying instances into one of three or more classes (classifying instances into one of two classes is called binary classification). While many classification algorithms (notably multinomial logistic regression) naturally permit the use of more than two classes, some are by nature binary algorithms; these can, however, be turned into multinomial classifiers by a variety of strategies.
Probabilitévignette|Quatre dés à six faces de quatre couleurs différentes. Les six faces possibles sont visibles. Le terme probabilité possède plusieurs sens : venu historiquement du latin probabilitas, il désigne l'opposé du concept de certitude ; il est également une évaluation du caractère probable d'un événement, c'est-à-dire qu'une valeur permet de représenter son degré de certitude ; récemment, la probabilité est devenue une science mathématique et est appelée théorie des probabilités ou plus simplement probabilités ; enfin une doctrine porte également le nom de probabilisme.
Bayes estimatorIn estimation theory and decision theory, a Bayes estimator or a Bayes action is an estimator or decision rule that minimizes the posterior expected value of a loss function (i.e., the posterior expected loss). Equivalently, it maximizes the posterior expectation of a utility function. An alternative way of formulating an estimator within Bayesian statistics is maximum a posteriori estimation. Suppose an unknown parameter is known to have a prior distribution .
Empirical probabilityIn probability theory and statistics, the empirical probability, relative frequency, or experimental probability of an event is the ratio of the number of outcomes in which a specified event occurs to the total number of trials, i.e., by means not of a theoretical sample space but of an actual experiment. More generally, empirical probability estimates probabilities from experience and observation. Given an event A in a sample space, the relative frequency of A is the ratio \tfrac m n, m being the number of outcomes in which the event A occurs, and n being the total number of outcomes of the experiment.
Théorie de la décisionLa théorie de la décision est une théorie de mathématiques appliquées ayant pour objet la prise de décision par une entité unique. (Les questions liées à la décision collective relèvent de la théorie du choix social.) La notion de décision intertemporelle découle de la prise en compte du facteur temps dans les problématiques reliant l'offre et la demande, les disponibilités et les contraintes. Ces problématiques sont celles qui découlent des combinaisons possibles entre les disponibilités et les décisions pouvant les impliquer.
Classification naïve bayésiennevignette|Exemple de classification naïve bayésienne pour un ensemble de données dont le nombre augmente avec le temps. La classification naïve bayésienne est un type de classification bayésienne probabiliste simple basée sur le théorème de Bayes avec une forte indépendance (dite naïve) des hypothèses. Elle met en œuvre un classifieur bayésien naïf, ou classifieur naïf de Bayes, appartenant à la famille des classifieurs linéaires. Un terme plus approprié pour le modèle probabiliste sous-jacent pourrait être « modèle à caractéristiques statistiquement indépendantes ».
Binary classificationBinary classification is the task of classifying the elements of a set into two groups (each called class) on the basis of a classification rule. Typical binary classification problems include: Medical testing to determine if a patient has certain disease or not; Quality control in industry, deciding whether a specification has been met; In information retrieval, deciding whether a page should be in the result set of a search or not. Binary classification is dichotomization applied to a practical situation.
Empirical risk minimizationEmpirical risk minimization (ERM) is a principle in statistical learning theory which defines a family of learning algorithms and is used to give theoretical bounds on their performance. The core idea is that we cannot know exactly how well an algorithm will work in practice (the true "risk") because we don't know the true distribution of data that the algorithm will work on, but we can instead measure its performance on a known set of training data (the "empirical" risk).
Decision ruleIn decision theory, a decision rule is a function which maps an observation to an appropriate action. Decision rules play an important role in the theory of statistics and economics, and are closely related to the concept of a strategy in game theory. In order to evaluate the usefulness of a decision rule, it is necessary to have a loss function detailing the outcome of each action under different states. Given an observable random variable X over the probability space , determined by a parameter θ ∈ Θ, and a set A of possible actions, a (deterministic) decision rule is a function δ : → A.
