Matthew Harris
Description: thoughts, models, and ephemera
archaeologist, numbers...
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This is a study regarding the contextualization of the Kvamme Gain statistic, the evaluation of its characteristics, and justification for replacing it with the Youden’s J statistic for the evaluation of archaeological predictive models (APM) effectiveness based on single value metrics. This analysis is divided into two blog posts. Part 1 discusses the use of evaluation metrics, the characteristics of the Kvamme Gain (KG) statistic (the most common metric used to evaluate APMs), and then links the KG to the
Matthew Harris