Confused b/w Precision and recall

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Hi @Raghav_Mahajan Good question. Please check this answer and let me know if this clarifies your question.

Precision/Recall disscussion

Hi. Great question. Overall, it depends on your problem how you assign cost to errors. Precision is how many true positives of all your predicted positive Recall is how many true positives from all actual positives From this article Recall is more important where Overlooked Cases (False Negatives) are more costly than False Alarms (False Positive). The focus in these problems is finding the positive cases. Precision is more important where False Alarms (False Positives) are more costly than…