<p> The technological advancement and the escalating interest in personalized medicine has resulted in increased ordinal classification problems. The most commonly used performance metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of a multi-class ordinal classifier include; predictive accuracy, Kendall's tau-b rank correlation, and the average mean absolute error (AMAE). These metrics are beneficial in the quest to classify multi-class ordinal data, but no single performance metric incorporates the misclassification cost. Recently, distance, which finds the optimal trade-off between the predictive accuracy and the misclassification cost was proposed as a cost-sensitive performance metric for ordinal data. This thesis proposes the criteria for variable selection and methods that accounts for minimum distance and improved accuracy, thereby providing a platform for a more comprehensive and comparative analysis of multiple ordinal classifiers. The strengths of our methodology are demonstrated through real data analysis of a colon cancer data set.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:10133995 |
| Date | 13 August 2016 |
| Creators | Nyongesa, Denis Barasa |
| Publisher | California State University, Long Beach |
| Source Sets | ProQuest.com |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
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