Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>We investigated if the performance of selected supervised machine-learning techniques could be improved by combining univariate outlier-detection techniques and machine-learning methods. We developed a framework to discover class-specific thresholds in class probability estimates using univariate outlier detection and proposed two novel techniques to utilize these class-specific… more Full Text: UTILIZING CLASS-SPECIFIC THRESHOLDS DISCOVERED BY OUTLIER DETECTION A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …