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I am trying to solve a multiclass classification problem. The dataset is balanced. I have been using accuracy as a performace metric till now. Are there any other good performance metrics for this task?
I already know about precision and recall but as far as I know they are used when the dataset is imbalanced.
If you can use python I suggest PyCM module. A vast variety of performance evaluation parameters is in access by this module and also you can use its documentation if you want to implement it by yourself.
There is an example of it:
>>> from pycm import *
>>> y_actu = [2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2] # or y_actu = numpy.array([2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 2])
>>> y_pred = [0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2] # or y_pred = numpy.array([0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2])
>>> cm = ConfusionMatrix(actual_vector=y_actu, predict_vector=y_pred) # Create CM From Data
>>> cm.classes
[0, 1, 2]
>>> cm.table
{0: {0: 3, 1: 0, 2: 0}, 1: {0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 2}, 2: {0: 2, 1: 1, 2: 3}}
>>> print(cm)
Predict 0 1 2
Actual
0 3 0 0
1 0 1 2
2 2 1 3
Overall Statistics :
95% CI (0.30439,0.86228)
Bennett_S 0.375
Chi-Squared 6.6
Chi-Squared DF 4
Conditional Entropy 0.95915
Cramer_V 0.5244
Cross Entropy 1.59352
Gwet_AC1 0.38931
Joint Entropy 2.45915
KL Divergence 0.09352
Kappa 0.35484
Kappa 95% CI (-0.07708,0.78675)
Kappa No Prevalence 0.16667
Kappa Standard Error 0.22036
Kappa Unbiased 0.34426
Lambda A 0.16667
Lambda B 0.42857
Mutual Information 0.52421
Overall_ACC 0.58333
Overall_RACC 0.35417
Overall_RACCU 0.36458
PPV_Macro 0.56667
PPV_Micro 0.58333
Phi-Squared 0.55
Reference Entropy 1.5
Response Entropy 1.48336
Scott_PI 0.34426
Standard Error 0.14232
Strength_Of_Agreement(Altman) Fair
Strength_Of_Agreement(Cicchetti) Poor
Strength_Of_Agreement(Fleiss) Poor
Strength_Of_Agreement(Landis and Koch) Fair
TPR_Macro 0.61111
TPR_Micro 0.58333
Class Statistics :
Classes 0 1 2
ACC(Accuracy) 0.83333 0.75 0.58333
BM(Informedness or bookmaker informedness) 0.77778 0.22222 0.16667
DOR(Diagnostic odds ratio) None 4.0 2.0
ERR(Error rate) 0.16667 0.25 0.41667
F0.5(F0.5 score) 0.65217 0.45455 0.57692
F1(F1 score - harmonic mean of precision and sensitivity) 0.75 0.4 0.54545
F2(F2 score) 0.88235 0.35714 0.51724
FDR(False discovery rate) 0.4 0.5 0.4
FN(False negative/miss/type 2 error) 0 2 3
FNR(Miss rate or false negative rate) 0.0 0.66667 0.5
FOR(False omission rate) 0.0 0.2 0.42857
FP(False positive/type 1 error/false alarm) 2 1 2
FPR(Fall-out or false positive rate) 0.22222 0.11111 0.33333
G(G-measure geometric mean of precision and sensitivity) 0.7746 0.40825 0.54772
LR+(Positive likelihood ratio) 4.5 3.0 1.5
LR-(Negative likelihood ratio) 0.0 0.75 0.75
MCC(Matthews correlation coefficient) 0.68313 0.2582 0.16903
MK(Markedness) 0.6 0.3 0.17143
N(Condition negative) 9 9 6
NPV(Negative predictive value) 1.0 0.8 0.57143
P(Condition positive) 3 3 6
POP(Population) 12 12 12
PPV(Precision or positive predictive value) 0.6 0.5 0.6
PRE(Prevalence) 0.25 0.25 0.5
RACC(Random accuracy) 0.10417 0.04167 0.20833
RACCU(Random accuracy unbiased) 0.11111 0.0434 0.21007
TN(True negative/correct rejection) 7 8 4
TNR(Specificity or true negative rate) 0.77778 0.88889 0.66667
TON(Test outcome negative) 7 10 7
TOP(Test outcome positive) 5 2 5
TP(True positive/hit) 3 1 3
TPR(Sensitivity, recall, hit rate, or true positive rate) 1.0 0.33333 0.5
>>> cm.matrix()
Predict 0 1 2
Actual
0 3 0 0
1 0 1 2
2 2 1 3
>>> cm.normalized_matrix()
Predict 0 1 2
Actual
0 1.0 0.0 0.0
1 0.0 0.33333 0.66667
2 0.33333 0.16667 0.5
ERR, TPR Micro, TPR Macro, PPV Micro, PPV Macro, ACC, Overall ACC, MCC, Overall MCC, BCD, Hamming Loss, Zero-one Loss for more information about this parameters visit the here
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Mar 2, 2019 at 10:33
Take a look at multi-class confusion matrix. maybe the model has some difficulty on a subset of the classes.
Multi class log-loss is used in many data science competitions. Although not so easily interpretable as accuracy, it penalizes based on your confidence on your predictions. If the models you are using output probabilities, it may be a better way than accuracy to compare and select different models on your validation data, as it takes into account the probabilities and not only the amount of correct predictions.
