How to evaluate an agent's behaviour to infrequent events? -- Reliable performance estimation insensitive to class distribution

In everyday life, humans and animals often have to base decisions on infrequent relevant stimuli with respect to frequent irrelevant ones. When research in neuroscience mimics this situation, the effect of this imbalance in stimulus classes on performance evaluation has to be considered. This is mos...

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Main Authors: Sirko eStraube, Mario Michael Krell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00043/full