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Subject: Re: knowing when you've improved your evaluation function

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 19:00:59 04/16/04

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On April 16, 2004 at 17:16:39, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On April 16, 2004 at 16:53:40, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On April 14, 2004 at 19:48:53, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On April 14, 2004 at 19:46:18, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 14, 2004 at 18:17:07, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I have downloaded the document and skimmed it.
>>>>>
>>>>>I will read it carefully this weekend.
>>>>
>>>>In that case you might as well re-download it when you sit down to read it.
>>>>I've already made some tweaks that aren't yet posted.
>>>
>>>I am curious about the "wandering" evaluation terms.
>>>
>>>I suspect two things about these terms:
>>>1.  That [usually] the correlational coefficient will be much smaller for these
>>>2.  That they occur in pairs {or vectors} (e.g. if wildly different sets can
>>>both have nearly optimal results, then likely there are interactions)
>>
>>I'm not sure what you mean by #1.
>
>The correlational coefficient is the goodness of the fit, for whatever gradient
>you are following.

You want to measure the fit for features individually?  Yes, I suggest using tau
(the concordance measure) for feature selection in the future work section.

Dave



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