Talk:Confusion matrix/Operation Transposition
@Danilosilva128: noted on Talk:Confusion_matrix#Confusion_Matrix_is_Transposed_compared_to_standard_practice that confusion matrices in statistics books more commonly have actual (ground truth) values as rows and predicted values as columns, as opposed to the current convention on Wikipedia, and proposes changing Wikipedia articles accordingly.
To avoid inconsistency during the process, @Cmglee: suggests identifying all articles needing changes, so that most (if not all) can be done in a short time, such as during an edit-a-thon.
Please append an asterisk to each entry below if it contains an image requiring modification:
- Confusion matrix
- Template:DiagnosticTesting_Diagram
- Template:SensSpecPPVNPV
- transcludes Template:DiagnosticTesting_Example
- Binary_classification#Evaluation_of_binary_classifiers
- Evaluation_of_binary_classifiers#Contingency_table
- Matthews_correlation_coefficient#Example
- Receiver_operating_characteristic#ROC_space
- Diagnostic_odds_ratio#Example
- Total_operating_characteristic#Basic_concept
The following articles need not be changed, as they already use the proposed convention (inconsistently with the ones above):
- Classification_rule#Confusion_Matrix_and_Classifiers
- Whistled_language#Techniques
- Fairness_(machine_learning)#Metrics
Many related articles need not be changed since they either use a template listed above or do not give a specific example of a confusion matrix.
Note: I covered all articles in the search for "confusion matrix", "table of confusion" and "contingency table". In the latter search, the articles either refer to a generic contingency table or already mention the keyword "confusion matrix". So I believe these are all the articles that need to be changed.
@Cmglee:, since these are few articles, I think this can be done by the two of us. For instance, we decide the changes previously, and then a single person edits all the articles and clicks "Publish changes" at approximately the same time on all of them. What do you think? (I have no experience with edit-a-thon) Danilosilva128 (talk) 16:17, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Danilosilva128: Thanks a lot for identifying the articles. That looks quite manageable and I'll be glad to do it tomorrow. The big one are the two templates Template:DiagnosticTesting_Diagram and Template:SensSpecPPVNPV. Since I worked on them before, shall I take them?
- Curiously enough, there's a London meetup tomorrow. The last one I attended (virtually), we edited several articles together, pooling in resources and sharing tips. I've proposed it to see if anyone is interested. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 16:49, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Cmglee: Sure, please take the two templates (and any other you wish). If no one is interested in the remaining ones, I can take them. Just let me know.