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SUBMITTER: Brooks J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6053284 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brooks Jordan J van der Laan Mark J MJ Go Alan S AS
The international journal of biostatistics 20121031 1
Estimators of the conditional expectation, i.e., prediction, function involve a global bias-variance trade off. In some cases, an estimator that yields unbiased estimates of the conditional expectation for a particular partitioning of the data may be desirable. Such estimators are calibrated with respect to the partitioning. We identify the conditional expectation given a particular partitioning as a smooth parameter of the distribution of the data, where the partitioning may be defined on the c ...[more]