Mftb Holdco, Inc.

Zillow, Inc.

Andrew Martin

Yeng Bun

Andrew Bruce

Chunyi Wang

Benjamin Hudson

A home view data structure is described. The home view data structure is made up of multiple entries. Each entry contains information identifying a home; and a quantitative value scoring the view available from the identified home, such that the contents of the data structure are usable to compare the identified homes on the basis of the views available from them.

View scores

A facility for estimating a value relating to an occurrence is described. The facility receives a first occurrence specifying a first value for each of a plurality of independent variables that include a distinguished independent variable designated to be monotonically linked to a dependent variable. The facility subjects the first independent variable values specified by the received occurrence to a statistical model to obtain a first value of the dependent variable. The facility receives a second occurrence specifying a second value for each of the plurality of independent variables (the second values varying from the first values in a first direction). The facility subjects the second independent variable values to the statistical model to obtain a second value of the dependent variable, the second value of the dependent variable being guaranteed not to vary from the first value of the dependent variable in a second direction opposite the first direction.

Enforcing, with respect to changes in one or more distinguished independent variable values, monotonicity in the predictions produced by a statistical model

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Andrew Martin