Construction and Assessment of Classification Rules

ISBN-13: 9780471965831 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 232 str.

D. J. Hand;Hand; David J. Hand

Opis

The author has written an accessible book presenting the central issues and placing particular emphasis on comparison, performance assessment and how to match method to application. He reviews the different approaches and guides researchers (and the huge class of users and potential users) to suitable classes of techniques. He points the way to more detailed study in "further reading" sections in each chapter.

Recenzje

"Evaluation rules are handled and the most important methods to calculate misclassification rates are presented." ( Monatshefte fur Mathematik, Vol. 127, No. 2, 1999)

"...an accessible book..." (Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 997, No.22, 2002)

Spis treści

BASIC IDEAS.

Introduction.

CONSTRUCTING RULES.

Fisher′s LDA and Other Methods Based on Covariance Matrices.

Nonlinear Methods.

Recursive Partitioning Methods.

Nonparametric Smoothing Methods.

EVALUATING RULES.

Aspects of Evaluation.

Misclassification Rate.

Evaluating Two– Class Rules.

PRACTICAL ISSUES.

Some Special Problems.

Some Illustrative Applications.

Links and Comparisons Between Methods.

References.

Index.

O autorze

David Hand is Professor of Statistics at Imperial College, London, where he is head of the Statistics Section in the Mathematics Department and head of the Mathematics in Banking and Finance Programme of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences. He launched the journal Statistics and Computing, and has been elected President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2008 and 2009. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1999 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. He has received various awards and prizes for his research, and acts as a consultant to a wide range of organisations, including governments, banks, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturing industry, and health service providers.