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. 2015 Feb 24;6:94. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00094

Table 6.

Popular evaluation metrics used for PHI prediction.

Metric Formula References
Accuracy TP+TNTP+FP+TN+FN Cui et al., 2012
Specificity TNTN+FP Cui et al., 2012
Sensitivity (Recall) TPTP+FN Dyer et al., 2011; Cui et al., 2012
Precision TPTP+FP Dyer et al., 2011
F1 score 2*Precision*RecallPrecision+Recall Kshirsagar et al., 2012, 2013b; Mei, 2013; Coelho et al., 2014
AUC The area under the ROC curve Davis et al., 2007; Mei, 2013; Coelho et al., 2014

TP, True Positive; TN, True Negative; FP, False Positive; FN, False Negative.