AUC
/ˌeɪ juː ˈsiː/
Area Under the Curve, measuring overall model performance
AUC in a sentence
“An AUC of 0.95 indicates excellent predictive ability.”
Origin of AUC
Acronym from Latin area (open space) + Old English under + Latin curvus (bent)
Related Words
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Techniques to prevent overfitting by penalizing complexity
normalization
Scaling data to a standard range
imputation
Filling in missing data values
outlier detection
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