MCDMClassification Metric

Precision

Precision measures the proportion of positive predictions that were actually correct. It answers the question: 'Of all the cases we predicted as positive, how many were truly positive?' Precision is critical in scenarios where false positives are costly.

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Sources

  1. Fawcett, T. (2006). An introduction to ROC analysis. Pattern Recognition Letters, 27(8), 861-874. DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2005.10.010
  2. Powers, D. M. (2011). Evaluation: From Precision, Recall and F-Measure to ROC, Informedness, Markedness and Correlation. Journal of Machine Learning Technologies, 2(1), 37-63. DOI: 10.9735/2229-3981

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ScholarGatePrecision (Precision (Positive Predictive Value)). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/model-evaluation/precision