The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation

Table 1 The standard confusion matrix M

	Predicted positive	Predicted negative
Actual positive	True positives TP	False negatives FN
Actual negative	False positives FP	True negatives TN

True positives (TP) and true negatives (TN) are the correct predictions, while false negatives (FN) and false positives (FP) are the incorrect predictions

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