Species distribution modeling and prediction: A class imbalance problem

Proceedings - 2012 Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding, CIDU 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 9-16

  Johnson, Reid A ^a   Chawla, Nitesh V ^a   Hellmann, Jessica J ^b  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS IMBALANCE; CLASS IMBALANCE PROBLEMS; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; MODELING TECHNIQUE; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS;

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84872396713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIDU.2012.6382186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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