What ROC Curves Can't Do (and Cost Curves Can)

Abstract. This paper shows that ROC curves, as a method of visualizing classifier performance, are inadequate for the needs of Artificial Intelligence researchers in several significant respects, and demonstrates that a different way of visualizing performance – the cost curves introduced by Drummond and Holte at KDD’2000 – overcomes these deficiencies.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ROCAI
• Authors: Chris Drummond, Robert C. Holte
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Researchers, Classifier Performance, Cost Curves, ROCAI 2004