August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
522 pages
12h 45m
English
The misclassification impurity index is the simplest index, and is defined as follows:

The interpretation is straightforward but, unfortunately, in terms of quality performance, this index is not the best choice because it's not particularly sensitive to different probability distributions. In all of these cases, Gini or cross-entropy indexes are the most natural choice.
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