Technical Reports

1996

@techreport{Tib1996,
	vgclass =	{report},
	author =	{Robert Tibshirani},
	title =	{Bias, variance and prediction error for classification
	rules},
	institution =	{University of Toronto},
	month =	{November},
	year =	{1996},
	abstract =	{We study the notions of bias and variance for
	classification rules. Following Efron (1978) we develop a decomposition
	of prediction error into its natural components. Then we derive
	bootstrap estimates of these components and illustrate how they can be
	used to describe the error behaviour of a classifier in practice. In
	the process we also obtain a bootstrap estimate of the error of a
	``bagged'' classifier.},
}