Statistical Performance Measures

Neeraj Kumar Vaid
6 min readMay 4, 2019

How to select the best model from the available options?

Statistical performance measures are often used for model selection in machine learning and statistical inference. From multiple models trained with different sets of hyper-parameters and parameters, the one that gives best performance in terms of a selected performance criterion is finally adopted. Let’s understand commonly used performance metrics for model selection through an example so that we can choose one of these for our model selection.

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