Micro, Macro & Weighted Averages of F1 Score, Clearly Explained

Understanding the concepts behind the micro average, macro average, and weighted average of F1 score in multi-class classification with simple illustrations

Kenneth Leung
Towards Data Science
7 min readJan 4, 2022

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Image by author and Freepik

The F1 score (aka F-measure) is a popular metric for evaluating the performance of a…

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