[IP4-2-1-2] F-score

F-score represents the harmonic mean between precision and recall. As F-score combines both precision and recall, it can be regarded as an overall quality measure. The range of F is from 0 to 1 with larger values representing higher accuracy.

External resources

• Inglada, J., Arias, M., Tardy, B., Hagolle, O., Valero, S., Morin, D., . . . Koetz, B. (2015). Assessment of an Operational System for Crop Type Map Production Using High Temporal and Spatial Resolution Satellite Optical Imagery. Remote Sensing, 7(9), 12356-12379.
• Powers, D. M. (2011). Evaluation: from precision, recall and F-measure to ROC, informedness, markedness and correlation. Journal of Machine Learning Technologies, 2 (1), 37-63.

Learning outcomes

• 1161 - Explain how the F-score is calculated

  Explain how the F-score is calculated

Self assessment

Outgoing relations

• [IP4-2-1-2] F-score subclassof [IP4-2-1] Accuracy assessment

Contributors

• Florian Albrecht
  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Florian_Albrecht
• Mariana Belgiu
  https://research.utwente.nl/en/persons/mariana-belgiu
• Stefan Lang
  https://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=32483&L=1