What does recall mean in Machine Learning?

user1687717 picture user1687717 · Jan 2, 2013 · Viewed 30.6k times · Source

What's the meaning of recall of a classifier, e.g. bayes classifier? please give an example.

for example, the Precision = correct/correct+wrong docs for test data. how to understand recall?

Answer

Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse picture Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse · Jan 2, 2013

Recall literally is how many of the true positives were recalled (found), i.e. how many of the correct hits were also found.

Precision (your formula is incorrect) is how many of the returned hits were true positive i.e. how many of the found were correct hits.