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Can a 99% accurate model be useless?
Short answer. Yes, when the cases you care about are rare.
Which metric for a spam filter?
Precision.
Pick the right metric
| Problem | Trust |
|---|---|
| Disease test | Recall |
| Spam filter | Precision |
| Fraud | F1 score |
Remember
| Rare cases fool accuracy |
| Ask which mistake costs more |
Can a ninety nine percent accurate model be useless? Yes. Pick by the costly mistake. Disease tests need recall. Spam filters need precision. Fraud needs F1 balance. Rare cases fool accuracy. Ask which mistake costs more.
This clip is from the full lesson: Model Evaluation Metrics: Confusion Matrix, Accuracy, Precision, Recall and F1 — 8 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: CBSE Class 10 Artificial Intelligence (417), CBSE Class 10 Artificial Intelligence (417), CBSE Class 10 Artificial Intelligence (417), CBSE Class 10 Artificial Intelligence (417)
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