Confidence measure/score for Boosting

asked Aug 23 '13

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I am testing various Boosting methods implemented in OpenCV. Apart for the prediction result itself, I could use some measure of prediction confidence. Can I get not only the class corresponding to the highest probability, but also this probability? I saw there is parameter returnSum to the function CvBoost::predict(). Is it a good measure for this probability?

Thanks!

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