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Information Theoretic Metrics for Multi-Class Predictor Evaluation
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tech.magnetic.com
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dcrosta
4017 days ago
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brobdingnagian
4017 days ago
I'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.
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darkmighty
4017 days ago
I'm guessing here -- because there are highly dependent uncorrelated datasets?
It's easy to give examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normally_distributed_and_uncor...
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aphar
4017 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthews_correlation_coefficie...
is defined for binary (two-class) classifications only.
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brobdingnagian
4017 days ago
MCC is trivially extended to support regression and multi-label. See the implementation in
http://grey.colorado.edu/emergent
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