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Many published articles in automatic music classification deal with the development and experimental comparison of algorithms—however the final statements are often based on figures and simple statistics in tables and only a few related studies apply proper statistical testing for a reliable discussion of results and measurements of the propositions’ significance. Therefore we provide two simple examples for a reasonable application of statistical tests for our previous study recognizing instruments in polyphonic audio. This task is solved by multi-objective feature selection starting from a large number of up-to-date audio descriptors and optimization of classification error and number of selected features at the same time by an evolutionary algorithm. The performance of several classifiers and their impact on the pareto front are analyzed by means of statistical tests.
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Vatolkin, I., Bischl, B., Rudolph, G., Weihs, C. (2014). Statistical Comparison of Classifiers for Multi-objective Feature Selection in Instrument Recognition. In: Spiliopoulou, M., Schmidt-Thieme, L., Janning, R. (eds) Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01595-8_19
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