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Identification of relevant thresholds for binarisation

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Feature request Module: metrics WG: Evaluation
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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently all the confusion matrix based metrics ask for an already binarized input of prediction with a threshold predecided. In order to calculate metrics when the chosen binarisation threshold provides a given (other) confusion metric value, there should be methods linked between transform:post and confusion matrix so as to define that threshold and then calculate the relevant confusion matrix metrics

Describe the solution you'd like
A function to find the relevant threshold at which to binarise to reach a certain value of confusion matrix and then calculate the associated other confusion metrics values at that threshold. Can be derived from the calculation of ROC, Precision/Recall curve or FPROC. This is necessary for the following:

  • PPV@Sensitivity
  • Sensitivity@PPV
  • Specificity@Sensitivity
  • Sensitivity@Specificity
  • Sensitivity@FPPI

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Research direction

Start by tracing the transform:post and confusion-matrix metric APIs, then compare the ROC, precision/recall curve, and FPROC calculations mentioned in the issue. Done means a documented approach and implementation for finding thresholds for the five requested metric relationships and calculating the associated confusion-matrix values.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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