The Explanation You Need on Binary Classification Metrics

An intuitive overview of the most common metrics used to assess the quality of a binary classification model

Andrea D'Agostino
Towards Data Science
9 min readAug 20, 2022

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The model assessment phase starts when we create a holdout set which consists of examples the learning algorithm didn’t see during training. If our model performs well on the holdout set…

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