How to Choose the Best Evaluation Metric for Classification Problems

A comprehensive guide covering the most commonly used evaluation metrics for supervised classification and their utility in different scenarios

Thomas A Dorfer
Towards Data Science
9 min readApr 17, 2023

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An image showing the formulas of various evaluation metrics and a depiction of a ROC curve.
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In order to properly evaluate a classification model, it is important to carefully consider which evaluation…

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