RUSBoost: Improving classification performance when training data is skewed

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Seiffert, Chris ^a   Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Van Hulse, Jason ^a   Napolitano, Amri ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CLASS IMBALANCE; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DATA SAMPLING; IMBALANCED DATA; MODEL TRAINING; SKEWED TRAINING DATUM; TRAINING DATA;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 70449453686     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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