### accuracy

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The fraction of predictions that a classification model got right. In multi-class classification, accuracy is defined as follows:
$$Accuracy = 
\frac{Correct Predictions}{Total Number of Examples} $$

In binary classification, accuracy has the following definition:

$$Accuracy = \frac{True Positives + True Negatives}{Total Number of Examples}
$$

See true positive and true negative.