The Data Science doctor delves into supporting vector machines, software systems that can perform binary classification such as creating a model to predict the gender of a person based on their age, ...

The support vector machine (SVM) is a popular learning method for binary classification. Standard SVMs treat all the data points equally, but in some practical problems it is more natural to assign ...

Xiang Zhang, Yichao Wu, Lan Wang, Runze Li, Variable selection for support vector machines in moderately high dimensions, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.