The Complete Guide to AUC and Average Precision

Simulations and Visualizations

Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD
Towards Data Science
10 min readJul 14, 2020

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This post offers the clearest explanation on the web for how the popular metrics AUC (AUROC) and average precision can be used to understand how a classifier performs on balanced data, with the next post focusing on imbalanced data. This post includes numerous simulations and AUROC/average precision plots for classifiers with…

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