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Database System Concepts

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ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

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Suppose you want to build a classifier for initial screening of patients who are suspected of having cancer. Patients classified as positive for cancer will be sent for further more accurate testing. The confusion matrices for classifiers A and B are given below.

Which classifier is more appropriate to use to classify patients?

Select one:

a. Classifier A

b. Classifier B

c. Both are equally good

and why?

Classifier A
Classifier B
Predicted class
Predicted class
Cancer
Not
Cancer
Not
Cancer
Cancer
Cancer
450
50
Cancer
400
100
Not
Not
100
400
50
450
Cancer
Cancer
Actual
class
Actual
class

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