Model Evaluation Metrics Quiz
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What is a key advantage of Leave-One-Out Cross Validation (LOOCV)?

  • It produces only one accuracy estimate.
  • It is less computationally expensive than K-fold Cross Validation.
  • It maximizes data usage, particularly for small datasets. (correct)
  • It avoids all forms of overfitting.

    • What is a disadvantage of Leave-One-Out Cross Validation (LOOCV)?

  • It uses a significant amount of data for testing.
  • It provides a lower variance estimate than other methods.
  • It can be computationally expensive and may overfit. (correct)
  • It is less reliable for large datasets.

    • What is a primary purpose of cross-validation in model evaluation?

  • To prepare data for external validation
  • To increase the size of the training set
  • To minimize the testing time
  • To choose the best parameter setting (correct)

    • Why is K-fold Cross Validation considered more stable than holdout validation?

    <p>It uses all data points for both training and testing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which method allows for validation of a model using only one sample as the test data?

    <p>Leave-One-Out Cross Validation (LOOCV)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens as the value of K increases in K-fold Cross Validation?

    <p>The variance in performance decreases, but computation time increases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is typically the recommended value for K in K-fold Cross Validation?

    <p>K=5 or 10 for a balanced approach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a disadvantage of using Holdout validation?

    <p>Results can vary significantly with different subsets</p> Signup and view all the answers

    During model tuning, what is typically the proportion of data allocated to the training set?

    <p>80% for training and 20% for testing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main aim of using hyperparameter tuning in model evaluation?

    <p>To determine a good value for some hyperparameter</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does precision measure in a classification model?

    <p>The proportion of predicted 1s that are actually 1</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the F1 score used for?

    <p>To calculate the harmonic mean of precision and recall</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which scenario is high sensitivity more important than high specificity?

    <p>In a medical diagnosis for a contagious disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the ROC curve represent?

    <p>The trade-off between sensitivity and specificity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the formula for calculating recall?

    <p>$TP / (TP + FN)$</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which statement about specificity is correct?

    <p>It indicates how well the model performs with true negatives</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does a high false negative rate signify?

    <p>Very few true positives are detected correctly</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How is the area under the ROC curve (AUROC) interpreted?

    <p>As the ability to distinguish between classes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does a True Positive (TP) represent in a confusion matrix?

    <p>Correctly classified as the class of interest</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following describes a False Positive (FP)?

    <p>Predicting a value as 1 when it is actually 0</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Type I error often referred to as?

    <p>False Positive</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In a medical context, what is a major concern with Type I errors?

    <p>They can lead to incorrect positive diagnoses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does a False Negative (FN) imply?

    <p>Predicting a value as 0 when it is actually 1</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is reducing Type II errors considered more critical in cancer diagnosis?

    <p>They may cause patients to neglect symptoms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does True Negative (TN) indicate in the confusion matrix?

    <p>Correctly classified as not the class of interest</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In determining drug effectiveness, what happens if a drug is ineffective but judged effective?

    <p>It leads to a Type I error.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the formula for accuracy in model evaluation?

    <p>$\frac{TP + TN}{TP + FP + FN + TN}$</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why can accuracy alone be misleading in classification problems?

    <p>It does not account for the balance of classes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does sensitivity (TP rate, Recall) measure?

    <p>The proportion of actual 1s that were correctly predicted as 1</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is specificity (TN rate) used to evaluate?

    <p>The proportion of actual 0s predicted as 0</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In a scenario where the classifier predicts all instances as class 0, what can be the reported accuracy if class 0 is 99% of the data?

    <p>99%</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Type I error in the context of model evaluation?

    <p>Incorrectly predicting a negative instance as positive</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does a high value of false negatives indicate about a classifier?

    <p>It is inaccurately predicting a significant number of actual positive instances</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main drawback of solely relying on accuracy for model evaluation?

    <p>It does not differentiate between types of errors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Model Evaluation Metrics

    • Precision: Measures the proportion of accurately predicted positive cases out of all predicted positive cases. Represents the model's ability to correctly identify positive instances.
    • Recall (Sensitivity, True Positive Rate): Measures the proportion of correctly predicted positive cases out of all actual positive cases. Represents the model's ability to identify all positive instances.
    • Specificity (True Negative Rate): Measures the proportion of correctly predicted negative cases out of all actual negative cases. Represents the model's ability to correctly identify all negative instances.
    • F1 Score: A harmonic mean of precision and recall, providing a balanced measure of the model's performance. It emphasizes both correctly identified positive cases and avoiding false positives.

    Confusion Matrix & Error Types

    • True Positive (TP): Correctly classified as the class of interest
    • False Negative (FN): Incorrectly classified as not the class of interest (Type II error)
    • False Positive (FP): Incorrectly classified as the class of interest (Type I error)
    • True Negative (TN): Correctly classified as not the class of interest
    • Type I Error: False Positive - predicting a positive instance when it is actually negative.
    • Type II Error: False Negative - predicting a negative instance when it is actually positive.

    Accuracy and its Limitations

    • Accuracy: Measures the overall proportion of correct predictions made by the model.
    • Accuracy Limitations: Accuracy can be misleading when dealing with imbalanced datasets. In cases where one class significantly outweighs the other, a model could achieve high accuracy by simply predicting the majority class, even if it fails to identify a significant portion of the minority class.

    ROC Curve

    • ROC Curve: (Receiver Operating Characteristic) Plots the True Positive Rate (TPR) against the False Positive Rate (FPR) at various threshold settings.
    • TPR (Sensitivity): TP / (TP+FN)
    • FPR (1-Specificity): FP / (FP+TN)
    • AUROC (Area Under the ROC Curve): Represents the model's overall performance across different threshold levels. A larger AUROC value indicates better model performance.

    Overfitting and Cross-Validation

    • Overfitting: Occurs when a model learns the training data too well, potentially capturing noise and random fluctuations. This leads to poor generalization performance on unseen data.
    • Internal Validation: Validates the model on the current dataset using techniques like cross-validation.
    • External Validation: Evaluates the model on a completely new dataset to assess its generalization ability.
    • Cross-Validation: A technique used to assess the performance of a model on unseen data by repeatedly training and testing the model on different subsets of the data. This helps in:
      • Choosing the best parameter setting for the model
      • Ensuring that the model does not overfit the training data

    Types of Cross-Validation

    • Holdout Validation: Splits the data into training and testing sets, typically with an 80/20 split. This method is simple and computationally efficient, but can be prone to variance depending on the data split.
    • Leave-One-Out Cross Validation (LOOCV): Uses (N-1) samples for training and a single sample for testing, repeating this process for each sample in the dataset. It maximizes data usage, reduces variance, but is computationally expensive, especially for large datasets.
    • K-fold Cross Validation: Divides the data into k subsets, trains the model on (k-1) subsets and tests on the remaining subset, repeating this process k times. Offers a balance between computational efficiency and variance reduction, and typically uses k values of 5 or 10.

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