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. 2021 Nov 9:1–29. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s10479-021-04366-9

Table 2.

Evaluation measures

Measure Formula Evaluation focus
Accuracy TP+TNTP+FP+FN+TN Degree of correctness (ability to classify a data point correctly)
Precision TPTP+FP Proportion of positive identifications was actually correct
Recall TPTP+FN Proportion of actual positives was identified correctly
F-measure 2TP2TP+FP+FN Combination of precision and recall
AUC 12TPTP+FN+TNTN+FP Degree of separability (the ability to distinguish between classes)

TP true positive, TN true negative, FP false positive, FN false negative