BMC Genomics January 2020 PMID 31898477

The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation.

Davide Chicco, Giuseppe Jurman

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The discussions consistently praise MCC as a more reliable metric, with comments like 'clear description of the advantages of MCC' and noting its ‘application to real-world data’; the tone is enthusiastic and emphasizes the importance of adopting MCC for more accurate evaluations in machine learning, demonstrating both deep engagement and high impact in the community.

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Most discussions highly support the superiority of MCC over traditional metrics like F1 and accuracy, emphasizing its balanced and reliable nature.

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Abstract in brief

  • The text explains that while accuracy and F1 score are commonly used to evaluate binary classification models, they can give overly optimistic results, especially with imbalanced datasets.
  • The Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) is presented as a more reliable metric because it considers all parts of the confusion matrix (true positives, false negatives, true negatives, false positives) and provides a balanced view of the model's performance.
  • The author argues that MCC offers more truthful and informative assessments of binary classification tasks and should be preferred over accuracy and F1 score in scientific research and applications.]

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Sebastian Raschka
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Reading ML bio literature, I noticed Matthews correlation coefficient (vs other metrics for assessing ML classifiers) is quite popular. Usually, I stick to precision, recall, and F1 for interpretability reasons, but this article is really convincing: https://t.co/JcKdC4ejRd

Nov 6, 2021 · 376 likes · 84 shares · 373,881 followers View post →
Piotr Pomorski
@PtrPomorski · X

If you want to score your model with a statistical metric, use MCC - it’s the most difficult to „please” and balances precision/recall way better than F1. Whenever I score with Sharpe/Sortino, I always check MCC as a support to analyze accuracy. https://t.co/bhAp1l1qXR

Apr 30, 2023 · 10 likes · 23,255 followers View post →
Giuseppe Jurman
@Giuseppe_Jurman · X

Unsolicited self-promotion: https://t.co/cRTGstxww3 just became my most cited paper! Thanks to my coauthor @DavideChicco_it for convincing me to write this paper with him, and thanks to everyone who found the manuscript useful and worth citing! https://t.co/ORDj1wPfiI

May 21, 2022 · 8 likes · 684 followers View post →
MAQC Society
@maqcsociety · X

Congrats to @DavideChicco_it for winning our #MAQC21 Outstanding Reproducibility in Science Award https://t.co/jbtsTmBYV1 Don't miss his talk on Friday! https://t.co/Caku8Iha50

Apr 29, 2021 · 8 likes · 3 shares · 206 followers View post →
Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social
@michaelhoffman · X

"The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation" by @DavideChicco_it @Giuseppe_Jurman @BMC_series Genomics https://t.co/Pg7sIRldoA

Feb 18, 2020 · 7 likes · 3 shares · 22,735 followers View post →
Sebastian Raschka
@rasbt · X

@svpino I really liked this one because I usually I don't think too hard about the beta and just use it as F1. As a side-note, I really got to like MCC; there was a convincing article on that (https://t.co/JcKdC4ejRd) that I ~recently read https://t.co/vGOalhUllO

Apr 18, 2022 · 6 likes · 1 share · 373,881 followers View post →

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Prash Suravajhala
@prashbio · X

The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation https://t.co/YFlyEVwg0Q #Classification #MachineLearning

Jun 26, 2023 · 1 like · 1,186 followers View post →
Piotr Pomorski
@PtrPomorski · X

If you want to score your model with a statistical metric, use MCC - it’s the most difficult to „please” and balances precision/recall way better than F1. Whenever I score with Sharpe/Sortino, I always check MCC as a support to analyze accuracy. https://t.co/bhAp1l1qXR

Apr 30, 2023 · 10 likes · 23,255 followers View post →
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Pablo Marin-Garcia
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Deepak Sherveghar
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Le Hoang
@hoangl_hle · X

RT @rasbt: @svpino I really liked this one because I usually I don't think too hard about the beta and just use it as F1. As a side-note, I…

Oct 26, 2022 · 1 share · 1 followers View post →
Paul Gardner
@ppgardne · X

@arroboso @svpino +1 for MCC https://t.co/CSncVwxQD0

Sep 14, 2022 · 1 like · 3,651 followers View post →
Thilini Minthari
@mintiminzz2 · X

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Xi He@axiezai@neuromatch.social
@axiezai · X

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Sep 12, 2022 · 84 shares · 193 followers View post →
Daniel Godoy
@dvgodoy · X

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Sep 12, 2022 · 84 shares · 1,536 followers View post →
ImSantosh
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Sep 11, 2022 · 84 shares · 305 followers View post →
Scott Tyler (@ScienceScottT@genomic.social)
@ScienceScottT · X

@nomad421 @michaelhoffman @MaartenvSmeden My metric of preference is Matthews correlation coefficient (or Phi Coefficient). To me it seems to strike the right balance since all TP, TN, FP, & FN, are penalized/rewarded with equal weights https://t.co/43vP78KL0j

Sep 11, 2022 · 3 likes · 1,346 followers View post →
felix Indra
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Jordan James Etem
@JordanJamesEtem · X

Chicco D, Jurman G (2020) The advantages of the matthews correlation coefficient (mcc) over f1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation. BMC Genomics 21(1):6 @mcuban https://t.co/LQGYFmUmiL

Jul 19, 2022 · 12,642 followers View post →
Giuseppe Jurman
@Giuseppe_Jurman · X

Unsolicited self-promotion: https://t.co/cRTGstxww3 just became my most cited paper! Thanks to my coauthor @DavideChicco_it for convincing me to write this paper with him, and thanks to everyone who found the manuscript useful and worth citing! https://t.co/ORDj1wPfiI

May 21, 2022 · 8 likes · 684 followers View post →
Vaxherra
@vaxherra · X

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May 5, 2022 · 84 shares · 336 followers View post →
Giuseppe Jurman
@Giuseppe_Jurman · X

Thanks @DJGould94 ! This is part of a series of papers that @DavideChicco_it and I wrote to compare MCC with other metrics. The first one is https://t.co/Y1nY9bXXCo, dealing with Accuracy and F1, while later other measures followed, and the series is not over yet! https://t.co/vhg5gfrio6

Apr 26, 2022 · 1 like · 684 followers View post →
James Leung 梁韜智
@JLdork · X

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Sebastian Raschka
@rasbt · X

@svpino I really liked this one because I usually I don't think too hard about the beta and just use it as F1. As a side-note, I really got to like MCC; there was a convincing article on that (https://t.co/JcKdC4ejRd) that I ~recently read https://t.co/vGOalhUllO

Apr 18, 2022 · 6 likes · 1 share · 373,881 followers View post →
João Santinha
@JAASANTINHA · X

@walterfwiggins Agree with @drsxr, I would just add the Matthews Correlation Coefficient https://t.co/WPAQ74aWKa

Mar 3, 2022 · 2 likes · 420 followers View post →
Alvaro Deleglise
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Sebastian Raschka
@rasbt · X

Reading ML bio literature, I noticed Matthews correlation coefficient (vs other metrics for assessing ML classifiers) is quite popular. Usually, I stick to precision, recall, and F1 for interpretability reasons, but this article is really convincing: https://t.co/JcKdC4ejRd

Nov 6, 2021 · 376 likes · 84 shares · 373,881 followers View post →
cmdline_tips
@cmdline_tips · X

@tjmahr recently came across this and has some interesting properties https://t.co/3zLUeiuqfh

Jun 2, 2021 · 2 likes · 758 followers View post →
SAGAR MALHOTRA
@SAGARMA68582195 · X

Awesome paper !@Giuseppe_Jurman https://t.co/DwSKkXro2X

May 11, 2021 · 4 followers View post →
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RT @maqcsociety: Congrats to @DavideChicco_it for winning our #MAQC21 Outstanding Reproducibility in Science Award https://t.co/jbtsTmBYV1…

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Giuseppe Jurman
@Giuseppe_Jurman · X

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MAQC Society
@maqcsociety · X

Congrats to @DavideChicco_it for winning our #MAQC21 Outstanding Reproducibility in Science Award https://t.co/jbtsTmBYV1 Don't miss his talk on Friday! https://t.co/Caku8Iha50

Apr 29, 2021 · 8 likes · 3 shares · 206 followers View post →
godfrey™
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RT @DJGould94: Paper of the week! https://t.co/cpbIi8YJRw What I love most = Clear description of the advantages of MCC & application to r…

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DavideChicco.it
@DavideChicco_it · X

RT @DJGould94: Paper of the week! https://t.co/cpbIi8YJRw What I love most = Clear description of the advantages of MCC & application to r…

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RT @DJGould94: Paper of the week! https://t.co/cpbIi8YJRw What I love most = Clear description of the advantages of MCC & application to r…

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Paper of the week! https://t.co/cpbIi8YJRw What I love most = Clear description of the advantages of MCC & application to real-world data #DataScience #PredictiveAnalytics #Rstats #scicomm #openaccess #researchpaper #AcademicChatter @OAgenetics @Giuseppe_Jurman @DavideChicco_it https://t.co/YlG3J52Mxf

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Giuseppe Jurman
@Giuseppe_Jurman · X

RT @DavideChicco_it: 2/n) An article that follows up the paper we published last year in BMC Genomics about MCC versus accuracy and F1 scor…

Feb 4, 2021 · 1 share · 684 followers View post →
DavideChicco.it
@DavideChicco_it · X

2/n) An article that follows up the paper we published last year in BMC Genomics about MCC versus accuracy and F1 score: https://t.co/fdqcSDo3Jd https://t.co/TaGLvt1Vmz

Feb 4, 2021 · 1 like · 1 share · 424 followers View post →
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#ChiccoJurman-1. [#Statistics] "BMC Genomics 21(1):6 (2020) The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in #BinaryClassification evaluation Davide Chicco Giuseppe Jurman" M.t. 'Die Vorteile des Matthews-Korrelationskoeffizienten >

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#ChiccoJurman-1. "BMC Genomics (2020) 21:6 The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (#MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation Davide Chicco Giuseppe Jurman" M.t. 'Die Vorteile des Matthews-Korrelationskoeffizienten (MCC) gegenüber >

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Blaine Bateman
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In "The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation" they propose: MCC as a better metric. It should be easy to determine if it creates better business outcomes. #datascience https://t.co/6OmkAsB7CR

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RT @michaelhoffman: "The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evalu…

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"The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation" by @DavideChicco_it @Giuseppe_Jurman @BMC_series Genomics https://t.co/Pg7sIRldoA

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RT @DavideChicco_it: @Giuseppe_Jurman @maqcsociety @mpbalab @FBKcom @MarcoChierici @nicole_bussola @leriomaggio @viperale @scjaput @furlane…

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@Giuseppe_Jurman @maqcsociety @mpbalab @FBKcom @MarcoChierici @nicole_bussola @leriomaggio @viperale @scjaput @furlanello @HalekosZ Great news! At MAQC2020 Giuseppe will present our paper "The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation" as a world premiere

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My new paper entitled "The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation" that I wrote with Giuseppe Jurman (@Giuseppe_Jurman @FBKcom) has just been published BMC Genomics

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The Advantages of The Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC ...
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Chicco and Jurman BMC Genomics (2020) 21:6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6413-7. RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access. The advantages of the Matthews.

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1 for MCC, https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-019-6413-7 But it needs a threshold to be defined, which can be ...

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Unique-Atmosphere520. • 9mo ago. For an imbalanced dataset use MCC. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6413-7 · HatWithAChat. • 9mo ago.

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[討論] 馬修斯相關係數(MCC) 在二元分類評估中是否優於F1 分數和 ...
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確實,但在所有情況下,所有MCC 都有明確的解釋:它是Pearson phi 係數的一個特例(見我文章的第2 頁)。 我不同意 ...

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[Diskussion] Är Matthews korrelationskoefficient (MCC) bättre än F1 ...
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I alla fall, F1 har en tydlig tolkning. Det är det harmoniska medelvärdet av precision och återkallelse. När du vill att alla kvantiteter i ...

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[Discussão] O coeficiente de correlação de Matthews (MCC) é ...
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Como vocês provavelmente sabem, os cientistas inventaram vários indicadores estatísticos para resumir a qualidade preditiva de uma matriz de ...

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[讨论] 马修斯相关系数(MCC) 在二元分类评估中是否优于F1 分数和 ...
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21 votes, 22 comments. 大家好, 我最近在BMC Genomics 上发表了一篇论文,我认为这对于任何从事二元分类工作的人来说都可能相当有趣。…

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[토론] 매튜스 상관 계수(MCC)가 바이너리 분류 평가에서 F1 점수와 ...
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21 votes, 22 comments. 안녕하세요 여러분, 저는 최근에 바이너리 분류 작업을 하는 모든 분들에게 흥미로울 수 있는 BMC Genomics에 논문을 발표 ...

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[Diskusjon] Er Matthews korrelasjonskoeffisient (MCC) bedre enn F1 ...
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21 votes, 22 comments. Kjære alle, Jeg publiserte nylig en artikkel på BMC Genomics som jeg tror kan være ganske interessant for alle som ...

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[Discussione] Il coefficiente di correlazione di Matthews (MCC) è ...
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Punteggio F1 e accuratezza sono tra i più comuni, ma nel nostro articolo, il mio collaboratore Giuseppe Jurman e io dimostriamo che il ...

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[Dyskusja] Czy współczynnik korelacji Matthewsa (MCC) jest lepszy ...
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[Dyskusja] Czy współczynnik korelacji Matthewsa (MCC) jest lepszy od miary F1 i dokładności w ocenie klasyfikacji binarnej? Discussion.

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[Συζήτηση] Είναι ο συντελεστής συσχέτισης Matthews (MCC ...
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Το F1 score και η ακρίβεια είναι από τα πιο συνηθισμένα, αλλά στην εργασία μας, ο συνεργάτης μου Giuseppe Jurman και εγώ αποδεικνύουμε ότι ο ...

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[Discusión] ¿Es el coeficiente de correlación de Matthews (MCC ...
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El F1 score y la exactitud son algunos de los más comunes, pero en nuestro artículo, mi colaborador Giuseppe Jurman y yo demostramos que el ...

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[Обсуждение] Коэффициент корреляции Мэтьюса (MCC) лучше ...
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F1-мера и точность — одни из самых распространенных, но в нашей статье мой коллега Джузеппе Юрман и я показываем, что коэффициент корреляции ...

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