The Confusion Matrix In Classification

Using the confusion matrix to evaluate the performance of a binary classifier. How to calculate the performance metrics and what they tell us about the result.

Andrea Gustafsen
Towards Data Science
5 min readMar 30, 2022

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In this article, I will go through the confusion matrix in the context of evaluating binary classification models. You can read about…

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