
doi: 10.1007/11871842_16
Evaluating classifier performance with ROC curves is popular in the machine learning community. To date, the only method to assess confidence of ROC curves is to construct ROC bands. In the case of severe class imbalance with few instances of the minority class, ROC bands become unreliable. We propose a generic framework for classifier evaluation to identify a segment of an ROC curve in which misclassifications are balanced. Confidence is measured by Tango's 95%-confidence interval for the difference in misclassification in both classes. We test our method with severe class imbalance in a two-class problem. Our evaluation favors classifiers with low numbers of misclassifications in both classes. Our results show that the proposed evaluation method is more confident than ROC bands.
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