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Information Theoretic Metrics for Multi-Class Predictor Evaluation
- brobdingnagian 11y agoI'm not entirely clear on why this was needed - The Matthews Correlation Coefficient can easily be used in multi-class multi-label classification and regression scenarios.
- darkmighty 11y agoI'm guessing here -- because there are highly dependent uncorrelated datasets? It's easy to give examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normally_distributed_and_uncorrelated_does_not_imply_independent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normally_distributed_and_uncor...
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- aphar 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthews_correlation_coefficient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthews_correlation_coefficie... is defined for binary (two-class) classifications only.
- brobdingnagian 11y agoMCC is trivially extended to support regression and multi-label. See the implementation in http://grey.colorado.edu/emergent http://grey.colorado.edu/emergent