Abstract:The contribution of this study is to offer suggestions for coding techniques for categorical predictor variables and comprehensive test scenarios to obtain significant performance results for imbalanced multiclass classification problems. We modify scenarios in the data mining process with the sample, explore, modify, model, and assess (SEMMA) framework coupled with statistical hypothesis testing to generalize the model performance evaluation conclusions as enhanced-SEMMA. We selected four open-source data set… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.