---
title: "A Simple Technique to Understand TP, TN, FP and FN"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-simple-technique-to-understand-tp-tn-fp-and-fn-ccwxmf9mw
source_url: https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/a-simple-technique-to-understand
type: article
source: "Daily Dose of Data Science | Avi Chawla | Substack"
published: 2024-05-06T19:12:59.830Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:14:12.405Z
tags: ["data-science", "classification", "linear-regression"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 13
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# A Simple Technique to Understand TP, TN, FP and FN

**[Daily Dose of Data Science \| Avi Chawla \| Substack](https://daily.dev/sources/dailydoseofds)** · 3 min read · 13 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn a simple technique to understand TP, TN, FP, and FN in binary classification models. Also, explore other special techniques for labeling binary classification predictions.

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Tags: [#data-science](https://daily.dev/tags/data-science), [#classification](https://daily.dev/tags/classification), [#linear-regression](https://daily.dev/tags/linear-regression)

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