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conformalInference.multi and conformalInference.fd: Twin Packages for Conformal Prediction

Methodology 2022-06-30 v1 Computation

Abstract

Building on top of a regression model, Conformal Prediction methods produce distribution free prediction sets, requiring only i.i.d. data. While R packages implementing such methods for the univariate response framework have been developed, this is not the case with multivariate and functional responses. conformalInference.multi and conformalInference.fd address this void, by extending classical and more advanced conformal prediction methods like full conformal, split conformal, jackknife+ and multi split conformal to deal with the multivariate and functional case. The extreme flexibility of conformal prediction, fully embraced by the structure of the package, which does not require any specific regression model, enables users to pass in any regression function as input while using basic regression models as reference. Finally, the issue of visualisation is addressed by providing embedded plotting functions to visualize prediction regions.

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@article{arxiv.2206.14663,
  title  = {conformalInference.multi and conformalInference.fd: Twin Packages for Conformal Prediction},
  author = {Paolo Vergottini and Matteo Fontana and Jacopo Diquigiovanni and Aldo Solari and Simone Vantini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.14663},
  year   = {2022}
}

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15 Pages, 2 Figures

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