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Cancer Screening: Precision or Recall?
Performance measure: why it is called recall?How to improve precision under imbalanced classificationImprove Precision of a binary classifier - Decision Tree in PythonIs recall more important than precision for mass mailings?Can Precision-Recall be improved for imbalanced sample?Why does balancing the test dataset improve precision-recall curve?Model Performance using Precision as evaluation metricIs it possible to calculate precision/recall for a bag-of-words model?
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Many people say that recall is more important than precision in a cancer screening test. That is, we want to minimize the number of false-negatives instead of minimizing the number of false-positives. But isn't this just an opinion?
In some cases, wouldn't it be better to not tell a person that he has cancer when he really has it? This might be better for him emotionally? Whereas if we minimize the false-positives, we would be saving money for the patient and potentially for everyone?
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Many people say that recall is more important than precision in a cancer screening test. That is, we want to minimize the number of false-negatives instead of minimizing the number of false-positives. But isn't this just an opinion?
In some cases, wouldn't it be better to not tell a person that he has cancer when he really has it? This might be better for him emotionally? Whereas if we minimize the false-positives, we would be saving money for the patient and potentially for everyone?
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Many people say that recall is more important than precision in a cancer screening test. That is, we want to minimize the number of false-negatives instead of minimizing the number of false-positives. But isn't this just an opinion?
In some cases, wouldn't it be better to not tell a person that he has cancer when he really has it? This might be better for him emotionally? Whereas if we minimize the false-positives, we would be saving money for the patient and potentially for everyone?
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Many people say that recall is more important than precision in a cancer screening test. That is, we want to minimize the number of false-negatives instead of minimizing the number of false-positives. But isn't this just an opinion?
In some cases, wouldn't it be better to not tell a person that he has cancer when he really has it? This might be better for him emotionally? Whereas if we minimize the false-positives, we would be saving money for the patient and potentially for everyone?
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