Research Article

An Empirical Study on the Performance of Cost-Sensitive Boosting Algorithms with Different Levels of Class Imbalance

Table 3

Index of performance using -measure for severely imbalanced data sets.

Win Loss Index Win Loss Index Win Loss Index Win Loss Index Win Loss Index

0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5

AdaC1 19 0 19 13 0 13 10 0 10 12 0 12 13 0 13
AdaC2 6 7 −1 8 5 3 12 3 9 13 2 11 16 2 14
AdaC3 1 12 −11 1 6 −5 7 5 2 9 5 4 10 4 6
AdaCost 1 4 −3 0 7 −7 0 15 −15 0 21 −21 0 25 −25
CSB1 2 2 0 2 3 −1 0 5 −1 0 5 −5 0 5 −5
CSB2 0 4 −4 0 3 −3 0 1 −4 0 1 −1 0 3 −3

0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1

AdaC1 12 0 12 13 0 13 10 0 10 12 0 12 14 0 14
AdaC2 18 1 17 17 1 16 17 0 17 15 0 15 14 0 14
AdaC3 11 4 7 9 5 4 11 3 8 14 1 13 13 0 13
AdaCost 0 26 −26 0 27 −27 0 27 −27 0 27 −27 1 27 −26
CSB1 0 7 −7 0 5 −5 0 8 −8 1 10 −9 0 15 −15
CSB2 0 3 −3 0 1 −1 0 0 0 0 4 −4 0 0 0