The core of our “statistics to English translation” series is Nina Zumel’s sequence of articles:
- “I don’t think that means what you think it means;” Statistics to English Translation, Part 1: Accuracy Measures
- Statistics to English Translation, Part 2a: ’Significant’ Doesn’t Always Mean ’Important’
- Statistics to English Translation, Part 2b: Calculating Significance
If you are trying to make sense of measuing the quality of a classifier, I can’t recommend these articles highly enough.
Now one might ask, why don’t we write more of these? We do and we don’t, a lot of work of this nature has been refined and further developed in our data science / machine learning intensives.
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jmount
Data Scientist and trainer at Win Vector LLC. One of the authors of Practical Data Science with R.