calculate accuracy and precision of confusion matrix in R

Ajay Singh picture Ajay Singh · Nov 25, 2012 · Viewed 62.7k times · Source

Is there any tool / R package available to calculate accuracy and precision of confusion matrix in R ?

The formula and data structure are here

Answer

Nishu Tayal picture Nishu Tayal · Sep 20, 2013

yes, you can calculate Accuracy and precision in R with confusion matrix. It uses Caret package.

Here is the example :

lvs <- c("normal", "abnormal")
truth <- factor(rep(lvs, times = c(86, 258)),
                levels = rev(lvs))
pred <- factor(
               c(
                 rep(lvs, times = c(54, 32)),
                 rep(lvs, times = c(27, 231))),               
               levels = rev(lvs))

xtab <- table(pred, truth)
# load Caret package for computing Confusion matrix
library(caret) 
confusionMatrix(xtab)

And Confusion Matrix for xtab would be like this :

Confusion Matrix and Statistics

          truth
pred       abnormal normal
  abnormal      231     32
  normal         27     54

               Accuracy : 0.8285
                 95% CI : (0.7844, 0.8668)
    No Information Rate : 0.75
    P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.0003097

                  Kappa : 0.5336
 Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.6025370

            Sensitivity : 0.8953
            Specificity : 0.6279
         Pos Pred Value : 0.8783
         Neg Pred Value : 0.6667
             Prevalence : 0.7500
         Detection Rate : 0.6715
   Detection Prevalence : 0.7645

       'Positive' Class : abnormal

So here is everything, that you want.