# Balance classifier performance (boosting ensemble)

I'm trying to build a classifier for my highly imbalanced binary data, and I'd appreciate some help on how to balance by results. The dataset has the following stats:

tabulate(classes)
Value    Count   Percent
0    133412     97.62%
1     3247      2.38%


My dataset has 113 features. I'm using a boosting ensemble classifier with the RUSBoost algorithm (as my dataset is highly imbalanced). My weak learners are decision trees with a maximum of 5125 splits (1/16 of my training dataset examples). I'm using 300 learning cycles and a learn rate of 0.1. I get the following results (with 60% training and 40% testing):

accuracy: 0.99398
sensitivity: 0.87596
specificity: 0.99685
PPV: 0.87126
NPV: 0.99698


When plotting the ROC curve for my classifier (using test data), I get the following:

As can be appreciated, the classifier is getting very high specificity (and NPV), but not-so-good sensitivity (or PPV). Hence, my question is:

How can I change my classifier in order to get a balanced sensitivity and specificity (and of course PPV and NPV)? For example, the values indicated in the ROC curve would be awesome.

Any suggestion is very appreciated!

You can adjust the posterior probabilities $$P(C \mid {\bf x})$$ and $$P(\neg C \mid {\bf x})$$ by recalculating for a different prior distribution $$P^\prime(C)$$ and $$P^\prime(\neg C)$$. The correction formula is derived here.
Choose $$P^\prime(C)$$ and $$P^\prime(\neg C)$$ as to try to obtain the wished for sensitivity and specificity / PPV, NPV. Your desired optimum may not be achievable, but you can find the best fitting solution.