ROC analysis in ordinal regression learning

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-9

  Waegeman, Willem ^a   De Baets, Bernard ^a   Boullart, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Ordinal regression; Performance measures; Ranking; ROC analysis; Unbalanced learning problems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BINARY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; ORDINAL REGRESSION; PERFORMANCE MEASURES; ROC ANALYSIS; UNBALANCED LEARNING PROBLEMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 35649024735     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.07.019     Document Type: Article

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