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NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Confidence Intervals for the Area Under the ROC Curve
In many applications, good ranking is a highly desirable performance for a classifier. The criterion commonly used to measure the ranking quality of a classification algorithm is ...
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Score Fusion by Maximizing the Area under the ROC Curve
Information fusion is currently a very active research topic aimed at improving the performance of biometric systems. This paper proposes a novel method for optimizing the paramete...
Mauricio Villegas, Roberto Paredes
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Optimizing Classifier Performance via an Approximation to the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Statistic
When the goal is to achieve the best correct classification rate, cross entropy and mean squared error are typical cost functions used to optimize classifier performance. However,...
Lian Yan, Robert H. Dodier, Michael Mozer, Richard...
ECML
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Improved Model Selection Heuristic for AUC
Abstract. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) has been widely used to measure ranking performance for binary classification tasks. AUC only employs the classifier’s scores to ra...
Shaomin Wu, Peter A. Flach, Cèsar Ferri Ram...
CSDA
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
A note on iterative marginal optimization: a simple algorithm for maximum rank correlation estimation
The maximum rank correlation (MRC) estimator was originally studied by Han [1987. Nonparametric analysis of a generalized regression model. J. Econometrics 35, 303–316] and Sher...
Hansheng Wang