Precision

Also: positive predictive value

True positives divided by all predicted positives, TP / (TP + FP). High precision means few false alarms; it usually trades off against recall as the decision threshold moves.

Precision = TP / (TP + FP)

Example

A spam filter flags 50 emails and 40 of them are spam: precision = 40 / 50 = 0.8.

See it in the lesson: Named Entity Recognition →

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