Research Article

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

Table 6

Index of performance using -measure for data sets with a low-level imbalance.

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 16 0 16 10 0 10 7 0 7 7 0 7 5 0 5
AdaC2 5 5 0 2 4 −2 2 3 −1 9 2 7 11 2 9
AdaC3 1 9 −8 1 5 −4 3 2 1 12 1 11 15 0 15
AdaCost 5 2 3 2 2 0 2 4 −2 3 7 −4 1 11 −10
CSB1 3 3 0 2 2 0 2 3 −1 2 12 −10 0 12 −12
CSB2 0 11 −11 0 4 −4 0 4 −4 0 11 −11 0 7 −7

0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1

AdaC1 10 0 10 9 0 9 10 0 10 11 0 11 10 0 10
AdaC2 15 1 14 16 1 15 17 2 15 13 0 13 13 0 13
AdaC3 18 0 18 20 0 20 17 0 17 13 0 13 10 0 10
AdaCost 0 20 −20 0 22 −22 1 23 −22 0 21 −21 1 21 −20
CSB1 0 12 −12 1 11 −10 0 14 −14 0 12 −12 1 11 −10
CSB2 0 10 −10 0 12 −12 0 6 −6 0 4 −4 0 3 −3