[HTML][HTML] The Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) should replace the ROC AUC as the standard metric for assessing binary classification

D Chicco, G Jurman - BioData Mining, 2023 - biodatamining.biomedcentral.com
Binary classification is a common task for which machine learning and computational
statistics are used, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC …

[HTML][HTML] The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation

D Chicco, G Jurman - BMC genomics, 2020 - bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com
To evaluate binary classifications and their confusion matrices, scientific researchers can
employ several statistical rates, accordingly to the goal of the experiment they are …

[HTML][HTML] The Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) is more reliable than balanced accuracy, bookmaker informedness, and markedness in two-class confusion matrix …

D Chicco, N Tötsch, G Jurman - BioData mining, 2021 - biodatamining.biomedcentral.com
Evaluating binary classifications is a pivotal task in statistics and machine learning, because
it can influence decisions in multiple areas, including for example prognosis or therapies of …

[HTML][HTML] StAR: a simple tool for the statistical comparison of ROC curves

IA Vergara, T Norambuena… - BMC …, 2008 - bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral …
As in many different areas of science and technology, most important problems in
bioinformatics rely on the proper development and assessment of binary classifiers. A …

The benefits of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) in binary classification assessment

D Chicco, V Starovoitov, G Jurman - Ieee Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To assess the quality of a binary classification, researchers often take advantage of a four-
entry contingency table called confusion matrix, containing true positives, true negatives …

The Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) is more informative than Cohen's Kappa and Brier score in binary classification assessment

D Chicco, MJ Warrens, G Jurman - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Even if measuring the outcome of binary classifications is a pivotal task in machine learning
and statistics, no consensus has been reached yet about which statistical rate to employ to …

Caveats and pitfalls of ROC analysis in clinical microarray research (and how to avoid them)

D Berrar, P Flach - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) has emerged as the gold standard for assessing
and comparing the performance of classifiers in a wide range of disciplines including the life …

[HTML][HTML] A boosting method for maximizing the partial area under the ROC curve

O Komori, S Eguchi - BMC bioinformatics, 2010 - Springer
Background The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is a fundamental tool to
assess the discriminant performance for not only a single marker but also a score function …

[HTML][HTML] The precision-recall plot is more informative than the ROC plot when evaluating binary classifiers on imbalanced datasets

T Saito, M Rehmsmeier - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Binary classifiers are routinely evaluated with performance measures such as sensitivity and
specificity, and performance is frequently illustrated with Receiver Operating Characteristics …

Understanding auc-roc curve

S Narkhede - Towards Data Science, 2018 - 48hours.ai
In Machine Learning, performance measurement is an essential task. So when it comes to a
classification problem, we can count on an AUC-ROC Curve. When we need to check or …