The binormal assumption on precision-recall curves

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4263-4266

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

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Classification performance; False discovery rate; Generalizability; Information retrieval; Receiver operating characteristic

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY DETECTION; CLASS IMBALANCE; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DECISION VALUE; EMPIRICAL ESTIMATE; FALSE DISCOVERY RATE; GENERALIZABILITY; NEGATIVE EXAMPLES; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; ROC CURVES; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE; TRUE POSITIVE RATES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78149479802     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2010.1036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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