Monotonicity constraints represent a vital form of prior knowledge in machine learning, particularly within classification tasks where a natural ordering exists among class labels. In such contexts, ...

Most axiomatic treatments of bargaining do not give a substantive role to individually irrational points. We show in this paper that it can matter greatly whether axioms and solutions are formulated ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Aug., 2000), pp. 1054-1082 (29 pages) We consider the problem of testing monotonicity of the regression function in a nonparametric regression model. We ...

Digital-to-analog converters (DACs) turn bits back into sound, images, or positions. Chipmakers work very hard to create reliable and accurate DACs. Still, sometimes there is a hiccup, putting a ...