It estimates the balanced accuracy for a nominal/categorical predicted-observed dataset.
Arguments
- data
(Optional) argument to call an existing data frame containing the data.
- obs
Vector with observed values (character | factor).
- pred
Vector with predicted values (character | factor).
- pos_level
Integer, for binary cases, indicating the order (1|2) of the level corresponding to the positive. Generally, the positive level is the second (2) since following an alpha-numeric order, the most common pairs are
(Negative | Positive),(0 | 1),(FALSE | TRUE). Default : 2.- tidy
Logical operator (TRUE/FALSE) to decide the type of return. TRUE returns a data.frame, FALSE returns a list; Default : FALSE.
- na.rm
Logic argument to remove rows with missing values (NA). Default is na.rm = TRUE.
Value
an object of class numeric within a list (if tidy = FALSE) or within a
data frame (if tidy = TRUE).
Details
The balanced accuracy is the average between recall and specificity. It is particularly useful when the number of observation belonging to each class is despair or imbalanced, and when especial attention is given to the negative cases. It is bounded between 0 and 1. Values towards zero indicate low performance. The closer to 1 the better.
For the formula and more details, see online-documentation
References
García, V., Mollineda, R.A., Sánchez, J.S. (2009). Index of Balanced Accuracy: A Performance Measure for Skewed Class Distributions. In: Araujo, H., Mendonça, A.M., Pinho, A.J., Torres, M.I. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5524. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02172-5_57
Examples
# \donttest{
set.seed(123)
# Two-class
binomial_case <- data.frame(labels = sample(c("True","False"), 100, replace = TRUE),
predictions = sample(c("True","False"), 100, replace = TRUE))
# Multi-class
multinomial_case <- data.frame(labels = sample(c("Red","Blue", "Green"), 100, replace = TRUE),
predictions = sample(c("Red","Blue", "Green"), 100, replace = TRUE) )
# Get balanced accuracy estimate for two-class case
balacc(data = binomial_case, obs = labels, pred = predictions, tidy = TRUE)
#> balacc
#> 1 0.495512
# Get balanced accuracy estimate for the multi-class case
balacc(data = multinomial_case, obs = labels, pred = predictions, tidy = TRUE)
#> balacc
#> 1 0.4582371
# }