Remove 2001 Remove 2010 Remove Risk Remove Statistics
article thumbnail

Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

But importance sampling in statistics is a variance reduction technique to improve the inference of the rate of rare events, and it seems natural to apply it to our prevalence estimation problem. High Risk 10% 5% 33.3% 2] Lawrence Brown, Tony Cai, Anirban DasGupta (2001). Statistical Science. 16 (2): 101–133. [3]

Metrics 98