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Python Data Science Essentials
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Python Data Science Essentials

by Alberto Boschetti
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
258 pages
5h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Scoring functions

In order to evaluate the performance of the system and check how close you are to the objective that you have in mind, you need to use a function that scores the outcome. Typically, different scoring functions are used to deal with binary classification, multilabel classification, regression, or a clustering problem. Now, let's see the most popular functions for each of these tasks.

Multilabel classification

When your task is to predict more than a single label (for instance, what's the weather like today? Which flower is this? What's your job?), it's called a multilabel classification. This is a very popular task, and many performance metrics exist to evaluate classifiers. Of course, you can use all these measures in the case ...

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