Optimizing abstaining classifiers using ROC analysis

ICML 2005 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 665-672

  Pietraszek, Tadeusz ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINARY CODES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

BOUNDED-ABSTENTION; MISCLASSIFICATION COST; OPTIMIZING ABSTAINING CLASSIFIERS; ROC ANALYSIS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 31844448403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1102351.1102435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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