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Why is Model Evaluation Metrics important in Machine Learning Fundamentals

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Choosing the right metric is important because different problems care about different kinds of mistakes, and a misleading metric can make a poor model look good.
Real-world example A fraud detection system uses recall as a key metric because missing a fraudulent transaction is far more costly than a few false alarms, even if overall accuracy looks slightly lower.

Common follow-ups: What is precision and recall, What is a confusion matrix, What is F1 score

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