The Case against Accuracy Estimation for Comparing Induction Algorithms
ICML '98 Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
PKDD 2007 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Visual comparison of software cost estimation models by regression error characteristic analysis
Journal of Systems and Software
Pattern Recognition
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This paper presents a generalization of Regression Error Characteristic (REC) curves. REC curves describe the cumulative distribution function of the prediction error of models and can be seen as a generalization of ROC curves to regression problems. REC curves provide useful information for analyzing the performance of models, particularly when compared to error statistics like for instance the Mean Squared Error. In this paper we present Regression Error Characteristic (REC) surfaces that introduce a further degree of detail by plotting the cumulative distribution function of the errors across the distribution of the target variable, i.e. the joint cumulative distribution function of the errors and the target variable. This provides a more detailed analysis of the performance of models when compared to REC curves. This extra detail is particularly relevant in applications with non-uniform error costs, where it is important to study the performance of models for specific ranges of the target variable. In this paper we present the notion of REC surfaces, describe how to use them to compare the performance of models, and illustrate their use with an important practical class of applications: the prediction of rare extreme values.