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Introduction
Evaluation metrics are used to measure the quality of the model. Selecting an appropriate evaluation metric is important because it can impact your selection of a model or decide whether to put your model into production.
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Evaluation Metrics for Classification
To understand Classification evaluation metrics, let’s first understand the confusion metric,
Confusion Metric:
- It is a tabular data format used to visualize classification problems’ performance.
- It is also known as Error Matrix and is used for Supervised Classification algorithms, typically for Binary-Classification algorithms, though it can be used for any classification algorithm.
- It compares how your prediction has fared in comparison to actual values.