r1 - 16 Mar 2004 - 14:04:19 - LeoGalambosYou are here: TWiki >  Egothor Web  > PrecisionRecall
The two most widely used retrieval effectiveness (quality) measures are precision (P) and recall (R) as defined below:

P = #relevant-documents-returned / #documents-returned
R = #relevant-documents-returned / #relevant-documents-in-collection

The F-measure (F) is then the harmonic mean of precision and recall and it is defined as:

F = (2PR)/(P+R)

It should be noted that improving recall together with precision is often an antagonistic goal.

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