Theoretical Analysis of a Performance Measure for Imbalanced Data

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  title={Theoretical Analysis of a Performance Measure for Imbalanced Data},
  author={Vicente Garc{\'i}a and Ram{\'o}n Alberto Mollineda and Jos{\'e} Salvador S{\'a}nchez},
  journal={2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition},
  year={2010},
  pages={617-620},
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This paper analyzes a generalization of a new metric to evaluate the classification performance in imbalanced domains, combining some estimate of the overall accuracy with a plain index about how…
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