[scikit-learn] Regarding negative value of sklearn.metrics.r2_score and sklearn.metrics.explained_variance_score

2021-08-11 Thread Samir K Mahajan
Dear All, I am amazed to find negative values of sklearn.metrics.r2_score and sklearn.metrics.explained_variance_score in a model ( cross validation of OLS regression model) However, what amuses me more is seeing you justifying negative 'sklearn.metrics.r2_score ' in your documentation. This

Re: [scikit-learn] Regarding negative value of sklearn.metrics.r2_score and sklearn.metrics.explained_variance_score

2021-08-11 Thread Tomek Drabas
Hi Samir, In the documentation there’s a link to how the coefficient of determination is defined: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_determination From this it is easy to see when the values can become negative: when the model performs significantly worse than the baseline (predicti

Re: [scikit-learn] Regarding negative value of sklearn.metrics.r2_score and sklearn.metrics.explained_variance_score

2021-08-11 Thread Reshama Shaikh
Hello Samir, The tone of your email is disrespectful. For any project, but particularly so for an open source project. It is not for this community. Please review the Code of Conduct for this library. http://scikit-learn.org/stable/developers/contributing.html Regards, Reshama > On Aug 11,

Re: [scikit-learn] Regarding negative value of sklearn.metrics.r2_score and sklearn.metrics.explained_variance_score

2021-08-11 Thread Christophe Pallier
Simple: despite its name R2 is not a square. Look up its definition. On Wed, 11 Aug 2021, 21:17 Samir K Mahajan, wrote: > Dear All, > I am amazed to find negative values of sklearn.metrics.r2_score and > sklearn.metrics.explained_variance_score in a model ( cross validation of > OLS regressio