On Aug 14, 2014, at 12:45 AM, Hanson, Gavin Keith <[email protected]> wrote:

> I’m just wondering if anyone has any advice on some ways to deal with 
> evaluating classifier performance on a 4-way problem.
> I’ve been using the BayesConfusionHypothesis tool which works quite well, but 
> I just wondered what else was out there by way of quantitative evidence to 
> insure that classifier accuracy isn’t being driven by perfect classification 
> between 2 labels, and confusion between the other 2, or whatever. Just 
> glancing at the confusion matrices can give us a good idea about what ROIs 
> are confusing certain conditions, but a more objective solution would be 
> nice. 

I don't think there's much else out there besides the BCH tool.

If you have a specific hypothesis to test, e.g. effects of classification of 
classes w, x, y, z is driven by perfect classification between w and x only, 
you can do a contrast at each subject. If A(p,q) is the classification accuracy 
between classes p and q, then compute, for example, c=A(w,x) - 
(A(w,y)+A(w,z)+A(x,y)+A(x,z)+A(y,z))/5. You can use standard group-analysis 
(random effect) analyses to see if this is reliable across participants.
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