Separate Error Rates with Respect to the False Negative and False

question 15

Multiple Choice

Separate error rates with respect to the false negative and false positive cases are computed to take into account the

• A)asymmetric costs in misclassification.
• B)symmetric weights of these two cases.
• C)distortions due to outliers.
• D)effect of sampling error.

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