Evaluation

Binary classifiers are evaluated by comparing their predictions to the actual outcomes using a confusion matrix. This is a table with four categories: True Positives (TP), where the classifier correctly predicts a positive outcome; True Negatives (TN), where it correctly predicts a negative outcome; False Positives (FP), where it wrongly predicts a positive; and False Negatives (FN), where it misses a positive case. Metrics like accuracy (overall correctness), precision (focus on positives), and recall (how well positives are found) are calculated from this matrix, helping to assess the classifier’s performance.