selectAlpha: Function to select the most optimal alpha parameter

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also

Description

Function selects the most optimal value of alpha parameter according to pAUC. For each of possible alphas the pAUC is computed as a measure of the separabilty of two distributions of similarity score: random and subsampled (prepared by function RandomScore. Alpha with maximal pAUC is selected.

Usage

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selectAlpha(alpha, subsample, random)

Arguments

alpha

Vector of possible alphas

subsample

Similarity scores after subsampling

random

Similarity scores after permuting class labels

Value

A list:

alpha

selected value of alpha

pAUC

pAUC for all alphas achivied

Author(s)

Ivana Ihnatova

See Also

RandomScore


MAMA documentation built on Jan. 15, 2017, 3:05 p.m.

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