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Activity Number: 644
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 8, 2013 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Abstract - #308918
Title: Correcting the Bias of Variable Selections in Cost-Sensitive Learning
Author(s): Hongjuan Liu*+ and Bei Zhou
Companies: and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D
Keywords: Classification Tree ; Variable Selection ; Imbalanced Data ; Generalized Gini Criteria ; Permutation ; Koziol's Combinational Approach
Abstract:

A selection bias towards covariates with many possible splits or missing values is a fundamental problem in the recursive binary partitioning tree. The variable selection bias seriously affects the interpretability of tree-structured regression models. Unbiased procedures have been suggested for some cases. However, most the algorithms assume or expect balanced class distributions. In the imbalanced data, the asymmetric sample sizes in the two classes render the approaches either rather burdensome or inapplicable to use. To correct the bias of variable selection, we investigated the algorithms for the evaluation of distribution of the maximally selected generalized Gini criteria that enables the fast computation for the imbalanced data. Moreover, we demonstrate that the cost function plays an important role in the variable selection; in particular, achieve a higher probability of the informative variable detection when the cost function of incorrectly classifying the minority class is increased if the minority class shows smaller variation than the majority class.


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