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Improvements in Computation and Usage of Joint CDFs for the N-Dimensional Order Statistic

Machine Learning 2020-06-19 v1 Information Retrieval Computation Machine Learning

Abstract

Order statistics provide an intuition for combining multiple lists of scores over a common index set. This intuition is particularly valuable when the lists to be combined cannot be directly compared in a sensible way. We describe here the advantages of a new method for using joint CDFs of such order statistics to combine score lists. We also present, with proof, a new algorithm for computing such joint CDF values, with runtime linear in the size of the combined list.

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@article{arxiv.2006.10124,
  title  = {Improvements in Computation and Usage of Joint CDFs for the N-Dimensional Order Statistic},
  author = {Arvind Thiagarajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.10124},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages