Glossary term
Glossary term
Evaluation and Benchmarks
Area under the interpolated precision-recall curve, obtained by plotting (recall, precision) points for different values of the classification threshold.
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A fraud team tracks PR AUC instead of ROC AUC because the positive class is rare and PR AUC reflects performance at low false-positive rates.
A medical screening team reports PR AUC for its rare-disease detector so clinicians see a fair view at low false-positive rates.
A retention team uses PR AUC to compare churn models because canceled subscribers are a small minority.
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