AUC optimization vs. Error rate minimization

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Cortes, Corinna ^a   Mohri, Mehryar ^b  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; ERROR RATE; EXPECTED VALUES; GLOBAL FUNCTIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; ROC CURVES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84897965802     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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