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𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧! 🚀

Feeling bewildered about which metrics to employ for evaluating your binary classification model? Let's navigate through and ascertain the optimal way to assess the classification model.

confusion matrix

🎯 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲:
→ Indicates the proportion of correctly classified instances among all instances.
→ Inadequate for imbalanced datasets as it might be deceptive.

💡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧:
→ Quantifies the proportion of true positives among all positive predictions.
→ High Precision is crucial in scenarios where false positives are undesirable.
→ It aids in addressing the query: "Among all the instances predicted as positive, how many are truly positive?"

📊 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥:
→ Computes the proportion of true positives among all actual positives.
→ Also referred to as sensitivity or true positive rate.
→ High Recall is crucial in scenarios where false negatives are undesirable.
→ It aids in answering the question: "Of all the actual positive instances, how many did we accurately identify?"

📐 𝐅1 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞:
→ Represents the harmonic mean of precision and recall.
→ Incorporates both precision and recall, yielding a unified metric that balances the two.

🔍 𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬:
→ Which evaluation metric do you primarily utilize in your domain?
→ Are there any additional metrics you employ aside from the ones discussed?

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