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The metric that measures the proportion of positive predictions that are actually correct is called ________.

  1. Differential Privacy / DP
  2. Container / Image
  3. Precision
  4. Fairness

Answer: Precision

Precision = TP / (TP + FP). Critical for imbalanced classification tasks where false positives are costly (fraud detection, medical diagnosis). Complements recall for comprehensive evaluation.

Topic Data Science
Exam Relevance Banking, SSC JE, UPSC