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

Fig 7

Relationship of apparent MCC with prevalence for a poor classification (Recall = Specificity = 0.5, J = 0) assessed with an imperfect reference (Recall = Specificity = 0.7) containing correlated errors.

The true relationship, obtained using a gold standard reference, is also shown for comparative purposes with a dashed black line.

Fig 7

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291908.g007