The evaluation of binary classification tasks in economical prediction

In the area of economical classification tasks, the accuracy maximization is often used to evaluate classifier performance. Accuracy maximization (or error rate minimization) suffers from the assumption of equal false positive and false negative error costs. Furthermore, accuracy is not able to expr...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin Pokorný
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mendel University Press 2010-01-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
Subjects:
Online Access:https://acta.mendelu.cz/58/6/0369/