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Analysis of presence-only data via semi-supervised learning approaches

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  • Wang, Junhui
  • Fang, Yixin

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Presence-only data occur in a classification, which consist of a sample of observations from the presence class and a large number of background observations with unknown presence/absence. Since absence data are generally unavailable, conventional semi-supervised learning approaches are no longer appropriate as they tend to degenerate and assign all observations to the presence class. In this article, we propose a generalized class balance constraint, which can be equipped with semi-supervised learning approaches to prevent them from degeneration. Furthermore, to circumvent the difficulty of model tuning with presence-only data, a selection criterion based on classification stability is developed, which measures the robustness of any given classification algorithm against the sampling randomness. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated through a variety of simulated examples, along with an application to gene function prediction.

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  • Wang, Junhui & Fang, Yixin, 2013. "Analysis of presence-only data via semi-supervised learning approaches," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 134-143.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:csdana:v:59:y:2013:i:c:p:134-143
    DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2012.10.007
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