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. 2022 Sep 6;22:234. doi: 10.1186/s12911-022-01977-5

Table 3.

Evaluation metrics

Accuracy=correctpredictionstotalpredictions Useful when target classes are well balanced
Recall=TruepositivesTruepositives+Falsenegatives The ability of a model to find all relevant cases within a dataset
Precision=TruepositivesTruepositives+Falsepositives The ability of a model to identify only the relevant data points
F1-score=2precision×recallprecision+recall

Combination between Precision and Recall

Used to punish extreme values