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SUBMITTER: O'Brien R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6370055 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
O'Brien Robert R Ishwaran Hemant H
Pattern recognition 20190129
Extending previous work on quantile classifiers (<i>q</i>-classifiers) we propose the <i>q</i>*-classifier for the class imbalance problem. The classifier assigns a sample to the minority class if the minority class conditional probability exceeds 0 <i>< q</i>* <i><</i> 1, where <i>q</i>* equals the unconditional probability of observing a minority class sample. The motivation for <i>q</i>*-classification stems from a density-based approach and leads to the useful property that the <i>q</i>*-cla ...[more]