Data imbalance in surveillance of nosocomial infections

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2868, Issue , 2003, Pages 109-117

  Cohen, Gilles ^a   Hilario, Mélanie ^b   Sax, Hugo ^a   Hugonnet, Stéphane ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

CLASS IMBALANCE; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; DATA IMBALANCE; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTION; NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION; RANDOM RESAMPLING; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; UNDER-SAMPLING;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 0242372103     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39619-2_14     Document Type: Article

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