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Table 2 Definitions of evaluation metrics

From: Predictive modeling for COVID-19 readmission risk using machine learning algorithms

Performance measures

Definitions

Precision

TP/(TP + FP)

Specificity/true negative rate (TNR)

TN/(TN + FP)

Sensitivity/true positive rate (TPR) or Recall

TP/(TP + FN)

Accuracy

(TP + TN)/(TP + TN + FP + FN)

F-measure

(2 × Precision × Recall)/ (Precision + Recall)

  1. *True positive (TP), true negative (TN), false positive (FP), false negative (FN)