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Model selection with Gini indices under auto-calibration

Machine Learning 2022-08-11 v3 Machine Learning

Abstract

The Gini index does not give a strictly consistent scoring rule in general. Therefore, maximizing the Gini index may lead to wrong decisions. The main issue is that the Gini index is a rank-based score that is not calibration-sensitive. We show that the Gini index allows for strictly consistent scoring if we restrict to the class of auto-calibrated regression models.

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@article{arxiv.2207.14372,
  title  = {Model selection with Gini indices under auto-calibration},
  author = {Mario V. Wüthrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.14372},
  year   = {2022}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure

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