Evaluation Metrics for Classification Problems

Author(s): Edward Ma

Originally published on Towards AI.

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If you do not know how to justify whether model is good or not, it is similar to you want to get something but you do not know what it is. After working as a Data Scientist for a few years, I strongly believe that metrics are very important things to define at the earlier stage.

This story will cover several classification metrics. You may also check out the following stories to understand other evaluation metrics

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Confusion matrix has to been mentioned when introducing classification metrics. True… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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