Precision, Recall, and F1
Trade-offs you must understand.
Beyond One Number
To see past accuracy you split results into four buckets per class. From them come precision, recall, and F1, the metrics that matter.
The Positive Class
Pick the class you care about as positive, like spam or fraud. Precision and recall both describe how well you handle that class.
All lessons in this course
- Why Accuracy Can Lie
- Precision, Recall, and F1
- Reading the Confusion Matrix
- Cross-Validation Done Right