A comparison of MCC and CEN error measures in multi-class prediction.

We show that the Confusion Entropy, a measure of performance in multiclass problems has a strong (monotone) relation with the multiclass generalization of a classical metric, the Matthews Correlation Coefficient. Analytical results are provided for the limit cases of general no-information (n-face d...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe Jurman, Samantha Riccadonna, Cesare Furlanello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3414515?pdf=render