From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50673 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rossini@blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: spam.el is a bit aggressive loading/saving spam-stat data Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:55:38 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87y93qu6qd.fsf@jeeves.blindglobe.net> References: <4nd6ll3bus.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nk7ft1hqj.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <874r6xtccq.fsf@emacswiki.org> <4nisv91h2t.fsf@chubby.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nel5u3frk.fsf@chubby.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nisuw5wsm.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nadg7446p.fsf@surf.bwh.harvard.edu> Reply-To: rossini@u.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047077805 7734 80.91.224.249 (7 Mar 2003 22:56:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Fri Mar 07 23:56:44 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18rQlf-00020R-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 23:56:44 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18rQkt-000850-00; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:55:55 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:56:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA10563 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:56:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 10872 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2003 22:55:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10867 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2003 22:55:37 -0000 Original-Received: from sense-sea-megasub-2-231.oz.net (HELO jeeves.blindglobe.net) (@216.39.172.231) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 7 Mar 2003 22:55:37 -0000 Original-Received: from rossini by jeeves.blindglobe.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18rQkc-0003Hg-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:55:38 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: >W_Rys'8s0zCUk5iFHk{Sn,Yw"=Z,Qq#v.3FS&**X:wHhFT~%t)F|ze)wKX<1v36_W(0n4-*r[~s_,hK"3DHHga&F6=|a1t8}VBnhQL~]rWOg(L In-Reply-To: <4nadg7446p.fsf@surf.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 07 Mar 2003 09:55:10 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50673 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50673 Ted Zlatanov writes: > Alex Schroeder, the spam-stat.el maintainer, might be able to answer. > Your stat file may be simply too large, and I don't think Alex has > written stats expiration code. Actually, that generates an interesting statistical question -- how to estimate the temporal window/down-weighting of scores to adaptively optimize sensitivity/specificity in a time-heterogeneous setting, within the context of a reciever-operating-characteristic (ROC) curve... Guess I'll have to look at the code and hack... best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini Rsrch. Asst. Prof. of Biostatistics U. of Washington Biostatistics rossini@u.washington.edu FHCRC/SCHARP/HIV Vaccine Trials Net rossini@scharp.org -------------- http://software.biostat.washington.edu/ -------------------- FHCRC:Tu: 206-667-7025 (fax=4812)|Voicemail is pretty sketchy/use Email UW: Th: 206-543-1044 (fax=3286)|Change last 4 digits of phone to FAX (CHANGE: monday/wednesday/friday locations are completely unpredictable.)