The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) in binary classification evaluation

Script thar generates R plots for the comparison between Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC), accuracy, and F1 score.

To use this script, you need to have R (≥ 3.3.0) installed on your computer, together with the following R packages:

• grid
• gridExtra
• ggplot2
• cowplot

To run the main script, you have to clone or download this repository, and then run the following commands:

cd bin

Rscript script_pies_and_barplots.r

The program will generate the output pdf files of the plot images in the plots folder.

Paper

Additional information about this project is available in the following peer-reviewed published article:

Davide Chicco, Giuseppe Jurman. "The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation". BMC Genomics 21, 6 (2020).

Contacts

For any enquire, please write to Davide Chicco (Krembil Research Institute) at davidechicco(AT)davidechicco.it