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Java: Data Science Made Easy
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Java: Data Science Made Easy

by Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
715 pages
17h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Precision, recall, and F1

In some cases, accuracy values are deceiving: they suggest that the classifier is good, although it is not. For example, suppose we have an unbalanced dataset: there are only 1% of examples that are positive, and the rest (99%) are negative. Then, a model that always predicts negative is right in 99% of the cases, and hence will have an accuracy of 0.99. But this model is not useful.

There are alternatives to accuracy that can overcome this problem. Precision and recall are among these metrics, as they both look at the fraction of positive items that the model correctly recognized. So, if we have a large number of negative examples, we can still perform some meaningful evaluation of the model.

Precision and recall ...

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