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Confusion Matrix

The confusion matrix is a table that displays the counts of true positives, true negatives, false positives, and false negatives. It provides a complete picture of where a classifier makes correct and incorrect predictions, enabling calculation of all other classification metrics.

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Confusion Matrix (Error Matrix)
Taxonomic method record · mcdm / model-evaluation
  • Everitt, B. S., & Hothorn, T. (2005). A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R. Chapman and Hall/CRC. · URL
  • Fawcett, T. (2006). An introduction to ROC analysis. Pattern Recognition Letters, 27(8), 861-874. · DOI 10.1016/j.patrec.2005.10.010
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Related methods

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Same method familyAccuracymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyMatthews Correlation Coefficientmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPrecisionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRecall (Sensitivity)machine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySpecificitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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Sources

2 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

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