Challenges in the real world use of classification accuracy metrics: From recall and precision to the Matthews correlation coefficient

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About the Authors

Giles M. Foody

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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