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In Favor of Logarithmic Scoring.

Shuford, Albert, and Massengill proved, a half century ago, that the logarithmic scoring rule is the only proper measure of inaccuracy determined by a differentiable function of probability assigned the actual cell of a scored partition. In spite of this, the log rule has gained less traction in app...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 86; no. 2; pp. 286 - 304
Main Author: McCutcheon, Randall G.
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Apr2019
Subjects:
Probability theory
Logarithmic functions
Mathematical analysis
Numerical analysis
Banach spaces
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