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getErrorMeasures-methods: Calculate Error Measures

Description

Computes various error measures for the classification of a data set.

Arguments

Value

  • A list with components alpha, beta, accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, ppv and npv, each a number in the range $[0,1]$.

Details

Let $\mathit{TP}$ be the number of correctly classified matches (true positives), $\mathit{TN}$ the number of correctly classified non-matches (true negatives), $\mathit{FP}$ and $\mathit{FN}$ the number of misclassified non-matches and matches (false positives and false negatives). The calculated error measures are: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]