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Eduncle posted an MCQ
March 03, 2020 • 14:25 pm 0 points
  • UGC NET
  • Library and Information Science

Assertion (A) : As the level of Recall decreases, the precision increases. 

Assertion (A) : As the level of Recall decreases, the precision increases. 
Reason (R) : Recall and Precision are not always inversely correlated. 
In the context of these two statements, which one of the following is true?

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    As the threshold decreases, the recall increases because we identify more patients that have the disease. However, as our recall increases, our precision decreases because in addition to increasing the true positives, we increase the false positives.

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