The influence of class imbalance on cost-sensitive learning: An empirical study

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 970-974

  Liu, Xu Ying ^a   Zhou, Zhi Hua ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS-IMBALANCED TASKS; COST-SENSITIVE CLASSIFIERS; MISCLASSIFICATION COSTS;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84878098426     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2006.158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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