Une partie de est appelée une classe de Vapnik-Cervonenkis si la croissance de la fonction est polynomiale; ces classes se trouvent être utiles en Statistique et en Calcul des Probabilités (voir par exemple Vapnik, Cervonenkis [V.N. Vapnik, A.YA. Cervonenkis, Theor. Prob. Appl., 16 (1971), 264-280], Dudley [R.M. Dudley, Ann. of Prob., 6 (1978), 899-929]).
Le présent travail est un essai de synthèse sur les classes de Vapnik-Cervonenkis. Mais il contient aussi beaucoup de résultats nouveaux, et notamment les deux résultats suivants :
- une partie de est une classe de Vapnik-Cervonenkis si et seulement si le nombre d’atomes de la tribu engendrée par membres quelconques de est majoré par un polynôme en ;
- si est une partie de , chaque loi de probabilité sur la tribu engendrée par définit un écart sur la famille , et on note dim la dimension d’entropie de l’espace ; la famille est une classe de Vapnik-Cervonenkis si et seulement si la quantité Sup est finie.
On trouvera dans l’introduction les énoncés de plusieurs autres résultats nouveaux démontrés ici (dont certains sont indiqués sans démonstration dans ma note [P. Assouad, C.R.A.S., Paris, 292 (1981), 921-924]).
A class of subsets of a set is called a Vapnik-Cervonenkis class if the growth of the function is polynomial ; these classes have proved to be useful in Statistics and Probability (see for example Vapnik, Cervonenkis [V.N. Vapnik, A.YA. Cervonenkis, Theor. Prob. Appl., 16 (1971), 264-280], Dudley [R.M. Dudley, Ann. of Prob., 6 (1978), 899-929]).
The present paper is a survey on Vapnik-Cervonenkis classes. Moreover we prove here many new results, among them the following:
- a subset of is a Vapnik-Cervonenkis class if and only if the number of atoms of the -algebra generated by any collection of members of if no more than (where and are two positive real numbers);
- if is a subset of , every probability law on the -algebra generated by defines a semimetric on the class , and the entropy dimension of the space will be denoted ; the class is a Vapnik-Cervonenkis class if and only if is finite.
The present paper contains other new results, some of them being stated without proof in my note [P. Assouad, C.R.A.S., Paris, 292 (1981), 921-924]).
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Assouad, Patrick. Densité et dimension. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Tome 33 (1983) pp. 233-282. doi : 10.5802/aif.938. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIF_1983__33_3_233_0/
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