Statistical learning for wind power : a modeling and stability study   towards forecasting
  We focus on wind power modeling using machine learning techniques. We show on real data provided by the wind energy company Ma{\"i}a Eolis, that parametric models, even following closely the physical equation relating wind production to wind speed are outperformed by intelligent learning algorithms. In particular, the CART-Bagging algorithm gives very stable and promising results. Besides, as a step towards forecast, we quantify the impact of using deteriorated wind measures on the performances. We show also on this application that the default methodology to select a subset of predictors provided in the standard random forest package can be refined, especially when there exists among the predictors one variable which has a major impact. 
Aur\'elie Fischer (UPD7), Lucie Montuelle (UPD7), Mathilde Mougeot   (UPD7), Dominique Picard (UPD7)
stat.AP stat.ML