Analyzing APS Models Statistically

Sensitivity
 
This indicator comes from the medical domain and consists of the probability of the diagnostic test finding disease among those who have the disease or the proportion of people with disease who have a positive test result.

More formally, the sensitivity SEi of an individual program i is evaluated by the equation:

where TPi, TNi, FPi, and FNi represent, respectively, the number of true positives, true negatives, false positives, and false negatives.

TPi, TNi, FPi, and FNi are the four different possible outcomes of a single prediction for a two-class case with classes “1” (“yes”) and “0” (“no”). A false positive is when the outcome is incorrectly classified as “yes” (or “positive”), when it is in fact “no” (or “negative”). A false negative is when the outcome is incorrectly classified as negative when it is in fact positive. True positives and true negatives are obviously correct classifications.

Keeping track of all these possible outcomes is such an error-prone activity, that they are usually shown in what is called a confusion matrix. And for all classification problems, APS 3.0 shows the confusion matrix for all the evolved models.

 


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