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What is Model Evaluation Metrics

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Model evaluation metrics are numbers used to measure how well a machine learning model performs, such as accuracy, precision, recall, and mean squared error.
Real-world example A fraud detection system uses recall as a key metric because missing a fraudulent transaction is far more costly than a few false alarms, even if overall accuracy looks slightly lower.

Common follow-ups: What is precision and recall, What is a confusion matrix, What is F1 score