On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:09:59AM +0100, Olivier Grisel wrote:
> >  * You could use the decision function, (decision_function method of the
> >   LinearSVC) although this is clearly a hack.

> Why is this a hack? ROC is only concerned with the relative positions
> of the decision threshold, not the probability normalization AFAIK, am
> I wrong?

You are right, but there is nothing that tell us that the decision
function is really related to a success probability. That said, the Platt
method used to implement predict_proba relies on a similar hack.

G

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