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What are best practices for Model Evaluation Metrics

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Pick metrics that match the real cost of different kinds of errors in your business problem, and always look at more than one metric before judging a model.
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