Boosting the area under the ROC curve

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20 - Proceedings of the 2007 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Long, Philip M ^a   Servedio, Rocco A ^a  

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AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; NOISE TOLERANTS;

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