Comparing classifiers when the misallocation costs are uncertain

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1139-1147

  Adams, N M ^a   Hand, D J ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification rule; Error rate; Loss function; Misclassification costs; Roc curve; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GRAPH THEORY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

CLASSIFICATION RULE; ERROR RATE; LOSS FUNCTION; MISCLASSIFICATION COSTS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033164667     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00154-X     Document Type: Article

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