Why Precision and Recall metric?

Author(s): Jalal Mansoori

Originally published on Towards AI.

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Before answering the above question let me tell you my experience when I was learning about the evaluation of learning algorithms in classification problems.

Currently, I am learning ML from the Andrew ng Coursera course and I just finished my week 6 assignment which means its more than a month WOW.

I am enjoying it. So let’s get back to the topic.

In week 6 when I first watched the video of different evaluation metrics for classification problems. I was literally not able to understand the concept of precision and recall. Then I started searching over the internet on different platforms… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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