MCDMClassification Metric
Precision-Recall AUC
The Precision-Recall Area Under the Curve (PR AUC) is the area under the curve formed by plotting recall on the x-axis and precision on the y-axis. It is particularly useful for evaluating classifiers on imbalanced datasets, where it is often more informative than ROC AUC.
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- Davis, J., & Goadrich, M. (2006). The relationship between precision-recall and ROC curves. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning, 233-240. DOI: 10.1145/1143844.1143874 ↗
- Saito, T., & Rehmsmeier, M. (2015). The precision-recall plot is more informative than the ROC plot when evaluating binary classifiers on imbalanced datasets. PLoS ONE, 10(3), e0118432. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118432 ↗