On optimal reject rules and ROC curves

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 943-952

  Santos Pereira, Carla M ^a,b   Pires, Ana M ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE PORTUCALENSE   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Chow's rejection rule; Derivative of ROC curves; Optimal decision rule; Rejection threshold; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; VECTORS;

CHOW'S REJECTION RULE; DERIVATIVE OF ROC CURVES; OPTIMAL DECISION-RULE; REJECTION THRESHOLD; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 17444422546     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.09.042     Document Type: Article

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