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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  1. 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
  2. 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

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ScholarGatePrecision-Recall AUC (Area Under the Precision-Recall Curve). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/model-evaluation/precision-recall-auc