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ML glossary: updated precision and recall definitions (#5368)
* Updated precision and recall definitions * Updated ms.date
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description: A glossary of machine learning terms.
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author: jralexander
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ms.author: johalex
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ms.date: 05/07/2018
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ms.date: 05/15/2018
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.prod: dotnet-ml
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ms.devlang: dotnet
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## F-score
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A measure of a test's accuracy that balances [precision](#precision) and [recall](#recall).
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An evaluation metric that balances [precision](#precision) and [recall](#recall).
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## Hyperparameter
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## Numerical feature vectors
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A feature vector consisting only of numerical values. This is similar to double[].
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A feature vector consisting only of numerical values. This is similar to `double[]`.
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## Pipeline
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All of the operations needed to fit a model to a dataset. A pipeline consists of data import, transformation, featurization, and learning steps. Once a pipeline is trained, it turns into a model.
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## Precision
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The proportion of true results to positive results.
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In [classification](#classification), the precision for a class is the number of items correctly predicted as belonging to that class divided by the total number of items predicted as belonging to the class.
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## Recall
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The fraction of all correct results over all results.
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In [classification](#classification), the recall for a class is the number of items correctly predicted as belonging to that class divided by the total number of items that actually belong to the class.
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## Regression
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