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    Seems as if there may be more than one definition for accuracy in common usage. Which do you mean?
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  • I mean specifically accuracy. I have a metric that is defined in academics as blah_blah_accuracy and I can only compute 1-X of that metric. So, I was curious for the definition of the inverse of accuracy to call my metric blah_blah_(inverse of accuracy)
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  • I don't mean to be a stickler, but what you're describing here isn't an 'inverse', it's a 'complement' (or, a particular type of complement if you're going down proper fuzzy theory, albeit 1-a is the commonest version used and the one typically implied unless explicitly specified otherwise). In fact, 'the complement of the accuracy' is a perfectly valid description for it and could be notated as $A^c$ (if accuracy is notated as $A$).
    – Tasos Papastylianou
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  • @TasosPapastylianou is right. You are looking for the complement, so long as $A$, and thus $A^c$ or $bar{A}$ is restricted to $[0, 1]$.
    – Avraham
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  • Right, I will update the question
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    Seems as if there may be more than one definition for accuracy in common usage. Which do you mean?
    – Avraham
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  • I mean specifically accuracy. I have a metric that is defined in academics as blah_blah_accuracy and I can only compute 1-X of that metric. So, I was curious for the definition of the inverse of accuracy to call my metric blah_blah_(inverse of accuracy)
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  • I don't mean to be a stickler, but what you're describing here isn't an 'inverse', it's a 'complement' (or, a particular type of complement if you're going down proper fuzzy theory, albeit 1-a is the commonest version used and the one typically implied unless explicitly specified otherwise). In fact, 'the complement of the accuracy' is a perfectly valid description for it and could be notated as $A^c$ (if accuracy is notated as $A$).
    – Tasos Papastylianou
    yesterday












  • @TasosPapastylianou is right. You are looking for the complement, so long as $A$, and thus $A^c$ or $bar{A}$ is restricted to $[0, 1]$.
    – Avraham
    yesterday










  • Right, I will update the question
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    yesterday













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    Seems as if there may be more than one definition for accuracy in common usage. Which do you mean?
    – Avraham
    yesterday












  • I mean specifically accuracy. I have a metric that is defined in academics as blah_blah_accuracy and I can only compute 1-X of that metric. So, I was curious for the definition of the inverse of accuracy to call my metric blah_blah_(inverse of accuracy)
    – nikolaevra
    yesterday










  • I don't mean to be a stickler, but what you're describing here isn't an 'inverse', it's a 'complement' (or, a particular type of complement if you're going down proper fuzzy theory, albeit 1-a is the commonest version used and the one typically implied unless explicitly specified otherwise). In fact, 'the complement of the accuracy' is a perfectly valid description for it and could be notated as $A^c$ (if accuracy is notated as $A$).
    – Tasos Papastylianou
    yesterday












  • @TasosPapastylianou is right. You are looking for the complement, so long as $A$, and thus $A^c$ or $bar{A}$ is restricted to $[0, 1]$.
    – Avraham
    yesterday










  • Right, I will update the question
    – nikolaevra
    yesterday














  • 1




    Seems as if there may be more than one definition for accuracy in common usage. Which do you mean?
    – Avraham
    yesterday












  • I mean specifically accuracy. I have a metric that is defined in academics as blah_blah_accuracy and I can only compute 1-X of that metric. So, I was curious for the definition of the inverse of accuracy to call my metric blah_blah_(inverse of accuracy)
    – nikolaevra
    yesterday










  • I don't mean to be a stickler, but what you're describing here isn't an 'inverse', it's a 'complement' (or, a particular type of complement if you're going down proper fuzzy theory, albeit 1-a is the commonest version used and the one typically implied unless explicitly specified otherwise). In fact, 'the complement of the accuracy' is a perfectly valid description for it and could be notated as $A^c$ (if accuracy is notated as $A$).
    – Tasos Papastylianou
    yesterday












  • @TasosPapastylianou is right. You are looking for the complement, so long as $A$, and thus $A^c$ or $bar{A}$ is restricted to $[0, 1]$.
    – Avraham
    yesterday










  • Right, I will update the question
    – nikolaevra
    yesterday








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Seems as if there may be more than one definition for accuracy in common usage. Which do you mean?
– Avraham
yesterday






Seems as if there may be more than one definition for accuracy in common usage. Which do you mean?
– Avraham
yesterday














I mean specifically accuracy. I have a metric that is defined in academics as blah_blah_accuracy and I can only compute 1-X of that metric. So, I was curious for the definition of the inverse of accuracy to call my metric blah_blah_(inverse of accuracy)
– nikolaevra
yesterday




I mean specifically accuracy. I have a metric that is defined in academics as blah_blah_accuracy and I can only compute 1-X of that metric. So, I was curious for the definition of the inverse of accuracy to call my metric blah_blah_(inverse of accuracy)
– nikolaevra
yesterday












I don't mean to be a stickler, but what you're describing here isn't an 'inverse', it's a 'complement' (or, a particular type of complement if you're going down proper fuzzy theory, albeit 1-a is the commonest version used and the one typically implied unless explicitly specified otherwise). In fact, 'the complement of the accuracy' is a perfectly valid description for it and could be notated as $A^c$ (if accuracy is notated as $A$).
– Tasos Papastylianou
yesterday






I don't mean to be a stickler, but what you're describing here isn't an 'inverse', it's a 'complement' (or, a particular type of complement if you're going down proper fuzzy theory, albeit 1-a is the commonest version used and the one typically implied unless explicitly specified otherwise). In fact, 'the complement of the accuracy' is a perfectly valid description for it and could be notated as $A^c$ (if accuracy is notated as $A$).
– Tasos Papastylianou
yesterday














@TasosPapastylianou is right. You are looking for the complement, so long as $A$, and thus $A^c$ or $bar{A}$ is restricted to $[0, 1]$.
– Avraham
yesterday




@TasosPapastylianou is right. You are looking for the complement, so long as $A$, and thus $A^c$ or $bar{A}$ is restricted to $[0, 1]$.
– Avraham
yesterday












Right, I will update the question
– nikolaevra
yesterday




Right, I will update the question
– nikolaevra
yesterday










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I've seen people use $text{error rate} = 1 - text{accuracy}$, on the premise that accuracy is the proportion of samples classified correctly, so the error rate is the proportion of samples classified incorrectly.






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    • @Tim I beg to differ: the question seems to be only about English. This answer by IrishStat needed to be posted if only to point out its obviousness (+1).
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              – whuber
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            • It's about name of the meric, not English language.
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            • @Tim I beg to differ: the question seems to be only about English. This answer by IrishStat needed to be posted if only to point out its obviousness (+1).
              – whuber
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            It's about name of the meric, not English language.
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            It's about name of the meric, not English language.
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            @Tim I beg to differ: the question seems to be only about English. This answer by IrishStat needed to be posted if only to point out its obviousness (+1).
            – whuber
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