When is the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve an appropriate measure of classifier performance?

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 492-495

  Hand, D J ^a   Anagnostopoulos, C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; Classification; Gini coefficient; ROC curve; Screening

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; CLASS ASSIGNMENTS; CLASSIFICATION RULES; CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; GINI COEFFICIENTS; INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS; MEASURE OF PERFORMANCE; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; ROC CURVES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); PATTERN RECOGNITION; SCREENING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CURVE FITTING;

EID: 84873807222     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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