Open AccessMathematicsMedicine
DOI: 10.6000/1929-6029.2012.01.01.08

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This work gives a brief overview over common performance measures for binary classification, which cover sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value,positive and negative likelihood ratio as well as ROC curve and AUC.

Abstract

We give a brief overview over common performance measures for binary classification. We cover sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value, positive and negative likelihood ratio as well as ROC curve and AUC.

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KOHL, M. Performance measures in binary classification. International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research, 2012, 1: 79–81.