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What is a key advantage of Leave-One-Out Cross Validation (LOOCV)?
What is a disadvantage of Leave-One-Out Cross Validation (LOOCV)?
What is a primary purpose of cross-validation in model evaluation?
Why is K-fold Cross Validation considered more stable than holdout validation?
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Which method allows for validation of a model using only one sample as the test data?
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What happens as the value of K increases in K-fold Cross Validation?
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What is typically the recommended value for K in K-fold Cross Validation?
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What is a disadvantage of using Holdout validation?
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During model tuning, what is typically the proportion of data allocated to the training set?
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What is the main aim of using hyperparameter tuning in model evaluation?
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What does precision measure in a classification model?
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What is the F1 score used for?
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In which scenario is high sensitivity more important than high specificity?
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What does the ROC curve represent?
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What is the formula for calculating recall?
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Which statement about specificity is correct?
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What does a high false negative rate signify?
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How is the area under the ROC curve (AUROC) interpreted?
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What does a True Positive (TP) represent in a confusion matrix?
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Which of the following describes a False Positive (FP)?
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What is a Type I error often referred to as?
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In a medical context, what is a major concern with Type I errors?
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What does a False Negative (FN) imply?
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Why is reducing Type II errors considered more critical in cancer diagnosis?
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What does True Negative (TN) indicate in the confusion matrix?
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In determining drug effectiveness, what happens if a drug is ineffective but judged effective?
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What is the formula for accuracy in model evaluation?
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Why can accuracy alone be misleading in classification problems?
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What does sensitivity (TP rate, Recall) measure?
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What is specificity (TN rate) used to evaluate?
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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?
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What is a Type I error in the context of model evaluation?
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What does a high value of false negatives indicate about a classifier?
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What is the main drawback of solely relying on accuracy for model evaluation?
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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.
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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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Test your understanding of model evaluation metrics such as precision, recall, specificity, and the F1 score. This quiz will help you grasp how these metrics influence the performance of machine learning models. Assess your knowledge on confusion matrix components and error types as well.