Friday, July 6, 2012

Error metrics for multi-class problems in R: beyond Accuracy and Kappa

The caret package for R provides a variety of error metrics for regression models and 2-class classification models, but only calculates Accuracy and Kappa for multi-class models.  Therefore, I wrote the following function to allow caret:::train to calculate a wide variety of error metrics for multi-class problems:

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