Credit Card Fraud Detection: Choosing the Right Metrics for Model

Nikhil Thapa
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
4 min readDec 28, 2020

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A Major part of building an effective model is to evaluate the model. The most frequent metric used is ‘Accuracy’. High Accuracy doesn’t mean that the model is performing better in all the situations. It is not always considered to be accurate as it sometimes is misleading in some situations like imbalanced class datasets.

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Nikhil Thapa
Analytics Vidhya

Data Science Enthusiast. I love developing data products and solving challenging real world problems using data