ML functional performance metrics · Question 26 of 60
A model for early cancer detection should miss as few actual cases of the disease as possible. Which metric is the priority?
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- C Recall
Explanation
Recall shows how many of the people who are actually ill the model also recognizes as ill. Every ill person who is missed is a false negative and pushes recall down. A high recall therefore means: hardly anyone is missed.