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Area Under the Precision-Recall Curve

Source: R/MeasureSimple.R
mlr_measures_classif.prauc.Rd

Measure to compare true observed labels with predicted probabilities in binary classification tasks.

Details

Computes the area under the Precision-Recall curve (PRC). The PRC can be interpreted as the relationship between precision and recall (sensitivity), and is considered to be a more appropriate measure for unbalanced datasets than the ROC curve. The AUC-PRC is computed by integration of the piecewise function.

This measure is undefined if the true values are either all positive or all negative.

Note

The score function calls mlr3measures::prauc() from package mlr3measures.

If the measure is undefined for the input, NaN is returned. This can be customized by setting the field na_value.

Dictionary

This Measure can be instantiated via the dictionary mlr_measures or with the associated sugar function msr():

mlr_measures$get("classif.prauc")
msr("classif.prauc")

Parameters

Empty ParamSet

Meta Information

  • Type: "binary"

  • Range: \([0, 1]\)

  • Minimize: FALSE

  • Required prediction: prob

See also

Dictionary of Measures: mlr_measures

as.data.table(mlr_measures) for a complete table of all (also dynamically created) Measure implementations.

Other classification measures: mlr_measures_classif.acc, mlr_measures_classif.auc, mlr_measures_classif.bacc, mlr_measures_classif.bbrier, mlr_measures_classif.ce, mlr_measures_classif.costs, mlr_measures_classif.dor, mlr_measures_classif.fbeta, mlr_measures_classif.fdr, mlr_measures_classif.fn, mlr_measures_classif.fnr, mlr_measures_classif.fomr, mlr_measures_classif.fp, mlr_measures_classif.fpr, mlr_measures_classif.logloss, mlr_measures_classif.mauc_au1p, mlr_measures_classif.mauc_au1u, mlr_measures_classif.mauc_aunp, mlr_measures_classif.mauc_aunu, mlr_measures_classif.mauc_mu, mlr_measures_classif.mbrier, mlr_measures_classif.mcc, mlr_measures_classif.npv, mlr_measures_classif.ppv, mlr_measures_classif.precision, mlr_measures_classif.recall, mlr_measures_classif.sensitivity, mlr_measures_classif.specificity, mlr_measures_classif.tn, mlr_measures_classif.tnr, mlr_measures_classif.tp, mlr_measures_classif.tpr

Other binary classification measures: mlr_measures_classif.auc, mlr_measures_classif.bbrier, mlr_measures_classif.dor, mlr_measures_classif.fbeta, mlr_measures_classif.fdr, mlr_measures_classif.fn, mlr_measures_classif.fnr, mlr_measures_classif.fomr, mlr_measures_classif.fp, mlr_measures_classif.fpr, mlr_measures_classif.npv, mlr_measures_classif.ppv, mlr_measures_classif.precision, mlr_measures_classif.recall, mlr_measures_classif.sensitivity, mlr_measures_classif.specificity, mlr_measures_classif.tn, mlr_measures_classif.tnr, mlr_measures_classif.tp, mlr_measures_classif.tpr