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F-Measure: MAE Mean Absolute Error Precision (Also Called Positive Predictive Value) Recall (Also Known As Sensitivity)

The document defines common information retrieval metrics like mean absolute error (MAE), precision, and recall. It explains that the F-measure is the harmonic mean of precision and recall, combining them into a single measure. The F1 score is a specific version of the F-measure that gives equal weight to precision and recall. Other F-measures can weight recall or precision higher than the other. The F-measure was created by van Rijsbergen to measure retrieval effectiveness based on the user's weighting of recall versus precision.

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F-Measure: MAE Mean Absolute Error Precision (Also Called Positive Predictive Value) Recall (Also Known As Sensitivity)

The document defines common information retrieval metrics like mean absolute error (MAE), precision, and recall. It explains that the F-measure is the harmonic mean of precision and recall, combining them into a single measure. The F1 score is a specific version of the F-measure that gives equal weight to precision and recall. Other F-measures can weight recall or precision higher than the other. The F-measure was created by van Rijsbergen to measure retrieval effectiveness based on the user's weighting of recall versus precision.

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MAE=Mean Absolute Error

precision= (also called positive predictive value)

recall= (also known as sensitivity)

While the F-measure is the harmonic mean of Recall and Precision

ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall#F-measure

f1 score= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_score

F-measure[edit]
Main article: F1 score
A measure that combines precision and recall is the harmonic mean of precision and recall, the
traditional F-measure or balanced F-score:

This measure is approximately the average of the two when they are close, and is more generally
the harmonic mean, which, for the case of two numbers, coincides with the square of the geometric
mean divided by the arithmetic mean. There are several reasons that the F-score can be criticized in

particular circumstances due to its bias as an evaluation metric. [1] This is also known as the
measure, because recall and precision are evenly weighted.

It is a special case of the general measure (for non-negative real values of ):

Two other commonly used measures are the measure, which weights recall higher than

precision, and the measure, which puts more emphasis on precision than recall.
The F-measure was derived by van Rijsbergen (1979) so that "measures the effectiveness of

retrieval with respect to a user who attaches times as much importance to recall as precision".
It is based on van Rijsbergen's effectiveness measure

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