Confusion Matrix Cheat Sheet

It’s time to end the confusion once and for all

Basil Han
1 min readApr 8, 2019

Do you find the various terms associated with the confusion matrix utterly confusing? That there are so many terms associated with a 2×2 matrix, often with overlapping definitions? Well, fret no more as the below cheat sheet is for you. I took disease diagnosis as the use case here.

In case it isn’t intuitive enough, below are some explanation.

TP is True Positive ; TN is True Negative ; FP is False Positive ; FN is False Negative

P is All Positive ; N is All Negative

That’s all! If you find this article informative, give it a clap! :)

Basil is the technical community manager and editor at AI Singapore, the government programme spearheading the nation’s AI talent development and adoption initiatives.

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Basil Han

Making a positive difference with data, one epoch at a time.