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Table 5 Confusion matrix for binary classification

From: Using machine learning to determine the correlation between physiological and environmental parameters and the induction of acute mountain sickness

 

Diseased

Diseased-free

Positive diagnostic test

True positives (TP)

False positives (FP)

Negative diagnostic test

False negatives (FN)

True negatives (TN)

  1. Where TP = number of true positive events, FP = number of false positive events
  2. TN = number of true negative events, FN = number of false negative events
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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