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Okay: Googled K-fold. It's a case of resampling. To justify it, use a finite group of measure preserving transformations, which I figured out and published a
by graycat 13y ago
Okay: Googled K-fold. It's a case
of resampling. To justify it, use
a finite group of measure preserving
transformations, which I figured out
and published about 16 years ago.
But we still have not made clear what
the heck the assumptions are.
Confusion matrix: Wikipedia has nothing
on it, but Matlab's documentation does.
But there's a problem: Suppose
we have some data on cats and dogs
and want to have a 'classifier'.
So, we do what Matlab said: Take
half of the training data and build
a classifier. Then we test the
classifier with the other half of the
data.
But suppose the classifier finds three
classifications instead of just the
two, dogs and cats we already know
exist. So, if we apply such methods
where we don't know in advance the
number of classifications we might
get three classes and be quite wrong
and not know it.
Again, the methodology looks like just
pushing some data into some software
with too little in assumptions up front
and too little about what we are getting
out on the back side.
- mikkom 13y agoNow you are talking about supervised vs unsupervised learning and it seems that you are talking about clustering, not classification. Classification problems are problems where you have number of classes and the classificator tries to estimate ẃith given parameters what group(s) the given sample belongs to. It doesn't 'invent' new classes.
- graycat 13y agoOkay, then, a critique of the OP is that in classification the number of classes is an input to the algorithm, not an output. My view is that being clear about such details is crucial.