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What is the primary purpose of evaluation metrics in machine learning?
What type of problem does the choice of evaluation metric depend on?
What is the main benefit of a confusion matrix?
What type of metrics are used for classification problems?
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What is the main difference between classification metrics and regression metrics?
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What is the purpose of evaluating the performance of a machine learning model?
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What is the primary purpose of a Confusion Matrix in binary classification?
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What is the formula to calculate the Accuracy of a model?
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What is the problem with using Accuracy as a metric in a 2-class problem where one class has a much larger number of instances?
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What is the most widely-used metric for evaluating the performance of a machine learning model?
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What is the main issue with a model that predicts everything to be Class NO in a 2-class problem?
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What is the value of Accuracy for a model that predicts everything to be Class NO in a 2-class problem with 990 Class NO examples and 10 Class YES examples?
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Why is detecting the rare class often more interesting in a 2-class problem?
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What can be inferred from a Confusion Matrix for a 2-class problem?
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Study Notes
Metrics for Performance Evaluation
- Evaluation metrics are used to assess how well a machine learning model performs, helping to compare different models for a specific task.
- The choice of metric depends on the type of problem and the nature of the data.
Types of Metrics
- Classification Metrics: used for binary classification and multi-class classification problems.
- Regression Metrics: used for regression problems.
- Unsupervised Learning Metrics: used for unsupervised learning problems.
Confusion Matrix
- A table layout used to visually summarize the performance of a classification model.
- Provides information on correct and incorrect predictions for each class.
- Example of a Confusion Matrix for binary classification:
- ACTUAL CLASS
- Yes: TP (True Positives), FN (False Negatives)
- No: FP (False Positives), TN (True Negatives)
Accuracy
- The percentage of test set tuples that are correctly classified.
- Formula: (TP + TN) / (TP + TN + FP + FN)
- Problem with Accuracy: it can be misleading in imbalanced datasets, where a trivial model can achieve high accuracy without detecting the rare class.
Example of a Problem with Accuracy
- Consider a 2-class problem with 990 Class NO examples and 10 Class YES examples.
- If a model predicts everything to be Class NO, accuracy is 99% (990/1000), but this model does not detect any Class YES examples.
- Detecting the rare class is usually more interesting (e.g., frauds, intrusions, defects, etc).
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Evaluate the performance of machine learning models with different metrics, depending on the problem type and data nature.
