Practical guide to applied conformal prediction in Python learn and apply the best uncertainty frameworks to your industry applications

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manokhin, Valery
Other Authors: Sudjianto, Agus (writer of foreword)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham, UK Packt Publishing Ltd. 2023
Edition:1st edition
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 5: Types of Conformal Predictors
  • Understanding classical predictors
  • Applying TCP for classification problems
  • Applying TCP for regression problems
  • Advantages
  • Understanding inductive conformal predictors
  • Choosing the right conformal predictor
  • Transductive conformal predictors
  • Inductive conformal predictors
  • Summary
  • Part 3: Applications of Conformal Prediction
  • Chapter 6: Conformal Prediction for Classification
  • Classifier calibration
  • Understanding the concepts of classifier calibration
  • Evaluating calibration performance
  • Various approaches to classifier calibration
  • Histogram binning
  • Platt scaling
  • Isotonic regression
  • Conformal prediction for classifier calibration
  • Venn-ABERS conformal prediction
  • Comparing calibration methods
  • Open source tools for conformal prediction in classification problems
  • Nonconformist
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7: Conformal Prediction for Regression
  • Uncertainty quantification for regression problems
  • Understanding the types and sources of uncertainty in regression modeling
  • The concept of prediction intervals
  • Why do we need prediction intervals?
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Credits
  • Foreword
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Introducing Conformal Prediction
  • Technical requirements
  • Introduction to conformal prediction
  • Understanding conformity measures
  • The origins of conformal prediction
  • The future of conformal prediction
  • How conformal prediction differs from traditional machine learning
  • The p-value and its role in conformal prediction
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2: Overview of Conformal Prediction
  • Understanding uncertainty quantification
  • How is it different from a confidence interval?
  • Conformal prediction for regression problems
  • Building prediction intervals and predictive distributions using conformal prediction
  • Mechanics of CQR
  • Quantile regression
  • CQR
  • Jackknife+
  • Jackknife regression
  • Jackknife+ regression
  • Conformal predictive distributions
  • Summary
  • Chapter 8: Conformal Prediction for Time Series and Forecasting
  • UQ for time series and forecasting problems
  • The importance of UQ
  • The history of UQ
  • Early statistical methods
  • the roots of UQ in time series
  • Aleatoric uncertainty
  • Epistemic uncertainty
  • Different ways to quantify uncertainty
  • Quantifying uncertainty using conformal prediction
  • Summary
  • Part 2: Conformal Prediction Framework
  • Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Conformal Prediction
  • Fundamentals of conformal prediction
  • Definition and principles
  • Basic components of a conformal predictor
  • Types of nonconformity measures
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4: Validity and Efficiency of Conformal Prediction
  • The validity of probabilistic predictors
  • Classifier calibration
  • The efficiency of probabilistic predictors
  • Summary