On optimal reject rules and ROC curves

  • Authors:
  • Carla M. Santos-Pereira;Ana M. Pires

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Rua Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida, 541, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal and Centre for Mathematics and its Applications (CEMAT), Instituto Superior Tecn ...;Department of Mathematics, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications (CEMAT), Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we make the connection between two approaches for supervised classification with a rejection option. The first approach is due to Tortorella and is based on ROC curves and the second is a generalisation of Chow's optimal rule.