The balanced accuracy and its posterior distribution

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3121-3124

  Brodersen, Kay H ^a,b   Ong, Cheng Soon ^a   Stephan, Klaas E ^b   Buhmann, Joachim M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bias; Class imbalance; Classification performance; Generalizability

Indexed keywords

BIAS; CLASS IMBALANCE; CLASS LABELS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS VALIDATION; GENERALIZABILITY; IMBALANCED DATASET; OPTIMISTIC ESTIMATES; POINT ESTIMATE; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 78149473669     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2010.764     Document Type: Conference Paper

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