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package smile.validation;

/**
 * Specificity (SPC) or True Negative Rate is a statistical measures of the
 * performance of a binary classification test. Specificity measures the
 * proportion of negatives which are correctly identified.
 * 

* SPC = TN / N = TN / (FP + TN) = 1 - FPR *

* Sensitivity and specificity are closely related to the concepts of type * I and type II errors. For any test, there is usually a trade-off between * the measures. This trade-off can be represented graphically using an ROC curve. *

* In this implementation, the class label 1 is regarded as positive and 0 * is regarded as negative. * * @author Haifeng Li */ public class Specificity implements ClassificationMeasure { @Override public double measure(int[] truth, int[] prediction) { if (truth.length != prediction.length) { throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format("The vector sizes don't match: %d != %d.", truth.length, prediction.length)); } int tn = 0; int n = 0; for (int i = 0; i < truth.length; i++) { if (truth[i] != 0 && truth[i] != 1) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Specificity can only be applied to binary classification: " + truth[i]); } if (prediction[i] != 0 && prediction[i] != 1) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Specificity can only be applied to binary classification: " + prediction[i]); } if (truth[i] != 1) { n++; if (prediction[i] == truth[i]) { tn++; } } } return (double) tn / n; } @Override public String toString() { return "Specificity"; } }

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