Zomato Interview Questions | False Negative

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Is it better to have too many false negatives or too many false positives?

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Dhruv2301 55 years 2 Answers 1226 views Great Grand Master 0

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  1. Depends on the problem you are solving.
    If you are modeling for spam detection, having too many false positives
    won’t be a good scenario as many of the important emails can be classified as spam.
    Whereas, if you are modeling for a fraud detection, having too many false negatives
    will come at a greater cost as you will end up not detecting many of the frauds.

  2. Usually the answer of this question depends upon the type of problem we are solving.
    for eg: Cancer Disease Prediction problem here our aim is to reduce False Negative as large number of False Negative will not be a good scenarios.
    for eg : Spam Detection problem here our aim is to reduce False positive as we do not want to mark any important as spam as this will leads to loss of information.

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