averaging_mechanism#

averaging_mechanism(averaging_method: str, scores_per_class, weights=None) Union[ndarray, float][source]#

Receive scores per class and averaging method and returns result based on averaging_method.

Parameters
averaging_methodstr, default: ‘per_class’

Determines which averaging method to apply, possible values are: ‘per_class’: Return a np array with the scores for each class (sorted by class name). ‘binary’: Returns the score for the positive class. Should be used only in binary classification cases. ‘macro’: Returns the mean of scores per class. ‘weighted’: Returns a weighted mean of scores based provided weights.

scores_per_classarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_classes)

The score of the metric per class when considering said class as the positive class and the remaining classes as the negative.

weightsarray-like of shape (n_samples,), default: None

True labels. Only required for ‘weighted’ averaging method.

Returns
scoreUnion[np.ndarray, float]

The score for the given metric.