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Synopsis Classification and diagnosis are concepts of fundamental importance in medicine. Yet all too frequently in published papers the only measure of performance of a classification rule is the optimistic apparent error rate . This is defined, some real examples are given illustrating how poor it is as an estimate of true future performance, and alternative measures are suggested.
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David J. Hand (1983) studied this question.
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