Re: [R] Reducing the FPR (false positive rate)

2005-06-16 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Anderson de Rezende Rocha Hello R-USERS, I think some people didn't understand my question. What I want is to use the training set to minimize the FALSE POSITIVE RATE. I think it is possible. I sacrifice ACCURACY to have less FALSE POSITIVES. I don't want a classifier result

[R] Reducing the FPR (false positive rate)

2005-06-14 Thread Anderson de Rezende Rocha
Hello R-USERS, I think some people didn't understand my question. What I want is to use the training set to minimize the FALSE POSITIVE RATE. I think it is possible. I sacrifice ACCURACY to have less FALSE POSITIVES. I don't want a classifier result with 5% of FPR and, for example, 93% of