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  "id": 4207,
  "title": "Should submission only have -1, 0, 1 for target",
  "url": "/competitions/cause-effect-pairs/discussion/4207",
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  "post_date": "2013-04-05T00:17:44.137Z",
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  "content": "<p>In CEdata_train_ target there are only values of -1, 0, and 1. But in the two baseline submissions there are values from a continuous scale between -1 and 1. Should our data submissions only have the discrete values -1, 0, 1 or should they be continous between\r\n -1 and 1? Does it matter for scoring?</p>",
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      "postDate": "04/05/2013 00:17:44",
      "content": "<p>In CEdata_train_ target there are only values of -1, 0, and 1. But in the two baseline submissions there are values from a continuous scale between -1 and 1. Should our data submissions only have the discrete values -1, 0, 1 or should they be continous between\r\n -1 and 1? Does it matter for scoring?</p>",
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      "id": "22201",
      "postDate": "04/05/2013 00:37:22",
      "content": "<p>The submitted values can be between -Inf and &#43;Inf. The scoring is performed as the average of 2 AUCs (the combination of 2 classification problems into 1 because of the symmetry of the problem):</p>\r\n<p>See scoring on page:</p>\r\n<p>http://www.causality.inf.ethz.ch/cause-effect.php?page=tasks</p>",
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      "author_name": "iguyon",
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      "post_date": "04/05/2013 00:37:22",
      "content": "<p>The submitted values can be between -Inf and &#43;Inf. The scoring is performed as the average of 2 AUCs (the combination of 2 classification problems into 1 because of the symmetry of the problem):</p>\r\n<p>See scoring on page:</p>\r\n<p>http://www.causality.inf.ethz.ch/cause-effect.php?page=tasks</p>",
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