Steps Involved
- Define Evaluation Metrics: Specify relevant metrics (e.g., accuracy, precision, recall) to assess model performance.
- Split Data: Divide the dataset into training and testing sets to prevent overfitting.
- Train Models: Develop and train multiple candidate models using different algorithms or hyperparameters.
- Evaluate Models: Use the testing set to compute evaluation metrics for each model.
- Cross-Validation: Repeat evaluation process with different data splits to reduce bias.
- Select Best Model: Choose the model with the best performance based on evaluation results.
Key Concepts
- Model Evaluation: Assessing model performance on unseen data.
- Cross-Validation: Splitting the data into multiple subsets for training and testing to reduce bias.
- Confusion Matrix: Tabulating actual and predicted labels to visualize model performance.
- ROC Curve: Graphing the true positive rate vs. false positive rate at various thresholds.
- Precision: True positives / (true positives + false positives).
- Recall: True positives / (true positives + false negatives).
Example
Consider a dataset with three classes: healthy, sick, and unknown.
- Evaluate Models: Train logistic regression, decision tree, and SVM models and compute accuracy, precision, and recall for each class.
- Cross-Validation: Perform 10-fold cross-validation to obtain more robust results.
- Select Best Model: Choose the model with the highest overall accuracy, balanced precision, and recall for all classes.
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