Optimization of the area under the ROC curve

Proceedings - 10th Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks, SBRN 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 141-146

  Castro, Cristiano Leite ^a   Braga, Antonio Padua ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

BINARY CLASSIFICATIONS; GRADIENT DESCENTS; IMBALANCED DATA SETS; LINEAR CLASSIFIERS; PRIOR PROBABILITIES; ROC CURVES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 58049211597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SBRN.2008.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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