A Hybrid Evaluation Metric for Optimizing Classifier

The accuracy metric has been widely used for discriminating and selecting an optimal solution in constructing an optimized classifier. However, the use of accuracy metric leads the searching process to the sub-optimal solutions due to its limited capability of discriminating values. In this study,...

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Main Authors: Hossin, M., Sulaiman, M.N, Mustapha, A., Mustapha, N., Rahmat, R.W
Format: Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE Explore 2011
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/3063/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/3063/1/A%20Hybrid%20Evaluation%20Metric%20for%20Optimizing%20Classifier.pdf
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author Hossin, M.
Sulaiman, M.N
Mustapha, A.
Mustapha, N.
Rahmat, R.W
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description The accuracy metric has been widely used for discriminating and selecting an optimal solution in constructing an optimized classifier. However, the use of accuracy metric leads the searching process to the sub-optimal solutions due to its limited capability of discriminating values. In this study, we propose a hybrid evaluation metric, which combines the accuracy metric with the precision and recall metrics. We call this new performance metric as Optimized Accuracy with Recall-Precision (OARP). This paper demonstrates that the OARP metric is more discriminating than the accuracy metric using two counter-examples. To verify this advantage, we conduct an empirical verification using a statistical discriminative analysis to prove that the OARP is statistically more discriminating than the accuracy metric. We also empirically demonstrate that a naive stochastic classification algorithm trained with the OARP metric is able to obtain better predictive results than the one trained with the conventional accuracy metric. The experiments have proved that the OARP metric is a better evaluator and optimizer in the constructing of optimized classifier.
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spelling unimas-30632015-09-18T07:24:28Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/3063/ A Hybrid Evaluation Metric for Optimizing Classifier Hossin, M. Sulaiman, M.N Mustapha, A. Mustapha, N. Rahmat, R.W AC Collections. Series. Collected works The accuracy metric has been widely used for discriminating and selecting an optimal solution in constructing an optimized classifier. However, the use of accuracy metric leads the searching process to the sub-optimal solutions due to its limited capability of discriminating values. In this study, we propose a hybrid evaluation metric, which combines the accuracy metric with the precision and recall metrics. We call this new performance metric as Optimized Accuracy with Recall-Precision (OARP). This paper demonstrates that the OARP metric is more discriminating than the accuracy metric using two counter-examples. To verify this advantage, we conduct an empirical verification using a statistical discriminative analysis to prove that the OARP is statistically more discriminating than the accuracy metric. We also empirically demonstrate that a naive stochastic classification algorithm trained with the OARP metric is able to obtain better predictive results than the one trained with the conventional accuracy metric. The experiments have proved that the OARP metric is a better evaluator and optimizer in the constructing of optimized classifier. IEEE Explore 2011 Proceeding NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/3063/1/A%20Hybrid%20Evaluation%20Metric%20for%20Optimizing%20Classifier.pdf Hossin, M. and Sulaiman, M.N and Mustapha, A. and Mustapha, N. and Rahmat, R.W (2011) A Hybrid Evaluation Metric for Optimizing Classifier. In: 3rd Conference on Data Mining and Optimization (DMO) 28-29 June 2011, Selangor Malaysia, 28-29 June 2011, Putrajaya. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
spellingShingle AC Collections. Series. Collected works
Hossin, M.
Sulaiman, M.N
Mustapha, A.
Mustapha, N.
Rahmat, R.W
A Hybrid Evaluation Metric for Optimizing Classifier
title A Hybrid Evaluation Metric for Optimizing Classifier
title_full A Hybrid Evaluation Metric for Optimizing Classifier
title_fullStr A Hybrid Evaluation Metric for Optimizing Classifier
title_full_unstemmed A Hybrid Evaluation Metric for Optimizing Classifier
title_short A Hybrid Evaluation Metric for Optimizing Classifier
title_sort hybrid evaluation metric for optimizing classifier
topic AC Collections. Series. Collected works
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/3063/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/3063/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/3063/1/A%20Hybrid%20Evaluation%20Metric%20for%20Optimizing%20Classifier.pdf