Statistical significance of the Netflix challenge

DOI10.1214/11-STS368zbMath1330.62090arXiv1207.5649MaRDI QIDQ5962690

Andrey Feuerverger, Shashi Khatri, Yu He

Publication date: 16 February 2016

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5649

zbMATH Keywords

penalizationneural networksprediction errorempirical Bayessingular value decompositioncross-validationshrinkageensemble methodscollaborative filteringeffective number of degrees of freedomgradient descentlatent factorsnearest neighborsNetflix contestrecommender systemsrestricted Boltzmann machines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ridge regression; shrinkage estimators (Lasso) (62J07) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Inference from stochastic processes and spectral analysis (62M15) Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10) Statistical ranking and selection procedures (62F07)

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