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In machine learning, Platt scaling or Platt calibration is a way of transforming the outputs of a classification model into a probability distribution over classes.The method was invented by John Platt in the context of support vector machines, [1] replacing an earlier method by Vapnik, but can be applied to other classification models. [2]
The forward–backward algorithm is an inference algorithm for hidden Markov models which computes the posterior marginals of all hidden state variables given a sequence of observations/emissions ::=, …,, i.e. it computes, for all hidden state variables {, …,}, the distribution ( | :).
The probability density function of the Erlang distribution is (;,) = ()!,,The parameter k is called the shape parameter, and the parameter is called the rate parameter.. An alternative, but equivalent, parametrization uses the scale parameter , which is the reciprocal of the rate parameter (i.e., = /):
It is a generalization of the gamma distribution which has one shape parameter (and a scale parameter). Since many distributions commonly used for parametric models in survival analysis (such as the exponential distribution , the Weibull distribution and the gamma distribution ) are special cases of the generalized gamma, it is sometimes used ...
The forward algorithm, in the context of a hidden Markov model (HMM), is used to calculate a 'belief state': the probability of a state at a certain time, given the history of evidence. The process is also known as filtering .
In probability theory and statistics, the Lévy distribution, named after Paul Lévy, is a continuous probability distribution for a non-negative random variable. In spectroscopy, this distribution, with frequency as the dependent variable, is known as a van der Waals profile. [note 1] It is a special case of the inverse-gamma distribution.
Animation showing the effects of a scale parameter on a probability distribution supported on the positive real line. Effect of a scale parameter over a mixture of two normal probability distributions. If the probability density exists for all values of the complete parameter set, then the density (as a function of the scale parameter only ...
In probability and statistics, the inverse-chi-squared distribution (or inverted-chi-square distribution [1]) is a continuous probability distribution of a positive-valued random variable. It is closely related to the chi-squared distribution .