Patent Document ID: 9104978
Application ID: 12900181
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method performed by at least one computer processing unit, the method comprising: logging data including outcomes, first values of a first parameter associated with the outcomes, and second values of a second parameter associated with the outcomes; using a machine learning technique to learn an equation from the data, wherein the equation comprises: a first term including the first parameter, the second parameter, and a learned first coefficient that appears in the first term with the first parameter and the second parameter, and a second term including the second parameter but not the first parameter and a learned second coefficient that appears in the second term with the second parameter and not the first parameter; after the machine learning technique has learned the equation comprising the learned first coefficient and the learned second coefficient: normalizing the learned first coefficient of the first term of the learned equation based on average values of the first term that includes both the first parameter and the second parameter; normalizing the learned second coefficient of the second term of the learned equation based on average values of the second term that includes the second parameter and not the first parameter; and ranking the first term and the second term in order of contribution to the outcomes based on the normalized learned first coefficient and the normalized learned second coefficient.