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Statistics:

Test: hypothesis true

Test: hypothesis false

Reality: true

Type I error

Reality: false

Type II error

Machine learning:
TP= true positive, TN=true negative, FP=false positive, FN=false
negative

Machine learning:
True positive rate
(total) accuracy

TP
TP FN

true negative rate

TP TN
TP TN FP FN

positive predictive value

TP
TP FP

TN
TN FP

TP TN
N

negative predictive value

Medical informatics:
sensitivity = true positive rate specificity = true negative rate

TN
TN FN

Information retrieval:
precision = positive predictive value
recall = true postive rate = sensitivity

TP
TP FP
TP
TP FN

F measure

2 pr
p r

Error rates in fault diagnostics or biometric verfication/identification:


false acceptance rate (FAR)= FP

false rejection rate (FRR) = FN

Note! All the accuracy and error measures defined are also used as
percent values.

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