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Multi-Class Classification Fusion Using Boosting For Identifying Steganography Methods, Benjamin M. Rodriguez, Gilbert L. Peterson Mar 2008

Multi-Class Classification Fusion Using Boosting For Identifying Steganography Methods, Benjamin M. Rodriguez, Gilbert L. Peterson

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Risk-Based Comparison Of Classification Systems, Seth B. Wagenman Mar 2008

Risk-Based Comparison Of Classification Systems, Seth B. Wagenman

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Performance measures for families of classification system families that rely upon the analysis of receiver operating characteristics (ROCs), such as area under the ROC curve (AUC), often fail to fully address the issue of risk, especially for classification systems involving more than two classes. For the general case, we denote matrices of class prevalences, costs, and class-conditional probabilities, and assume costs are subjectively fixed, acceptable estimates for expected values of class-conditional probabilities exist, and mutual independence between a variable in one such matrix and those of any other matrix. The ROC Risk Functional (RRF), valid for any finite number of …