Discussion of: Treelets--An adaptive multi-scale basis for sparse unordered data

We congratulate Lee, Nadler and Wasserman (henceforth LNW) on a very interesting paper on new methodology and supporting theory [arXiv:0707.0481]. Treelets seem to tackle two important problems of modern data analysis at once. For datasets with many variables, treelets give powerful predictions even...

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Main Authors: Meinshausen, N, Bühlmann, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008