Title
Comparing the performance of fault prediction models which report multiple performance measures: recomputing the confusion matrix
Abstract
There are many hundreds of fault prediction models published in the literature. The predictive performance of these models is often reported using a variety of different measures. Most performance measures are not directly comparable. This lack of comparability means that it is often difficult to evaluate the performance of one model against another. Our aim is to present an approach that allows other researchers and practitioners to transform many performance measures of categorical studies back into a confusion matrix. Once performance is expressed in a confusion matrix alternative preferred performance measures can then be derived. Our approach has enabled us to compare the performance of 600 models published in 42 studies. We demonstrate the application of our approach on several case studies, and discuss the advantages and implications of doing this.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2365324.2365338
Promise
Keywords
Field
DocType
categorical study,preferred performance measure,different measure,confusion matrix alternative,confusion matrix,performance measure,fault prediction model,multiple performance measure,case study,predictive performance,machine learning,fault
Data mining,Confusion matrix,Categorical variable,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Predictive modelling,Comparability,Machine learning
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.47
52
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Bowes159625.25
Tracy Hall244312.96
David Gray341911.20