Applying Jackknife and the need to reduce input layers (X,Y) by one - Regression

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#1

Hi,

My ANN’s predicts numerical values as output. The output layer is of length 4 (since it predicts 4 values from data). My input is X and Y, each with a length of 1000.

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To put an uncertainty on each of my predicted values from my ANN, I want to apply jackknife. That is to evaluating my model several times and deleting one random datapoint in each evaluation. Thus, I would need to change my input layers (X and Y) to a length of 999.

Is it possible to do this? If not, why not?

Regards,
Stijn

#3

Some insights/ideas would be very much appreciated here… :see_no_evil:

#4

It is not clear to me what you are aiming to. The layers shape is constant, and the reason is that each of the X values will be multiplied by a weight.

To evaluate if the net is doing well, just use a test set. Why isn’t this useful ?

@Stijno2

#5

Thanks for your reply.

Getting an uncertainty for each parameter is possible with K-fold validation (which I’m applying) but then I just get K predictions with a ton of computation/training time whereas with jackknife (or bootstrapping) I get multiple predictions by just using a single test, applying n evaluations with jackknife, and then appending the predictions each evaluation.

@Mah_Neh

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