Index of balanced accuracy: A performance measure for skewed class distributions

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

Volumn 5524 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 441-448

  Garcia V ^a,b   Mollineda, R A ^b   Sanchez J S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE TOLUCA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY RATE; CLASS DISTRIBUTIONS; EVALUATION METHOD; LEARNING PROCESS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 68749119874     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02172-5_57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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