A new evaluation measure for imbalanced datasets

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 87, Issue , 2008, Pages 27-32

  Weng, Cheng G ^a   Poon, Josiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Imbalanced datasets; ROC and Cost Sensitive Learning

Indexed keywords

BASE-LINE PERFORMANCE; COST-SENSITIVE LEARNING; EVALUATION; EVALUATION MEASURES; EVALUATION METHODS; IMBALANCED DATA-SETS; IMBALANCED DATASET; ROC CURVES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH;

COSTS;

EID: 84870568797     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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