Glossary · Evaluation & safety
Precision & Recall
Precision asks how many flagged items were correct; recall asks how many relevant items were found. When you change the decision threshold for one fixed scoring model, improving recall often lowers precision and vice versa. A better model can improve both. F1 is their harmonic mean.
Common confusion
The right threshold and metric depend on the cost of each error and the prevalence of the target class.
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