Theory of Intelligence
MACHINE LEARNING•Supervised Learning•Evaluating Classifiers•2.3 The Precision/Recall Trade-off

Introduction

How moving a classifier's decision threshold trades precision against recall, and how to choose the threshold that fits your goal.

Introduction

You usually can't have both perfect precision and perfect recall. Making a classifier catch more cases (higher recall) usually means more false alarms (lower precision), and vice versa. This is the precision/recall trade-off.

The good news: you don't need to retrain the model to move along this trade-off. You just change one number — the decision threshold. This topic shows how.

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