Confusion plot for the confusion matrix
Chong Sun Hong1
1Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University
Correspondence to: 1Professor, Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University, 25-2, Sungkyunkwan-Ro, Jongno-Gu, Seoul 03063, Korea. E-mail: cshong@skku.edu
Received December 8, 2020; Revised January 28, 2021; Accepted February 8, 2021.
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- Abstract
- There is a well known 2 by 2 confusion matrix which is widely used in biostatistics or credit assessment. Using these, not only the true positive rate (TPR) and true negative rate (TNR) but also the positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) statistics are obtained. In this study, we propose the confusion plot which is a graphical method can geometrically describe various statistics defined from the confu- sion matrix. The confusion plot consists of six right-angled triangles using equations expressed as the sum of rows and columns of the confusion matrix. In particular, it is found that TPR, TNR, PPV and NPV can be described as acute angles of right-angled triangles in the confusion plot. This confusion plot can evaluate the classification model and its performance similarly to the well known ROC curve. Therefore, the confusion plot could be useful in evaluating the classi cation models similar to the ROC curve.
- Keywords : Confusion matrix, NPV, PPV, TNR, TPR.
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