Gain chart and Lift chart for Random Forests^® Classification

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This command is available with the Predictive Analytics Module. Click here for more information about how to activate the module.

Use the Gain and Lift charts to assess the performance of your classification model. The Gain chart plots the true positive rate in percent versus the percent of total counts. The Lift chart plots the cumulative lift (or non-cumulative lift) versus the percent of total counts.

Interpretation of Gain chart

The out-of-bag line represents the expected response using the predictive model. The dotted reference line represents a line with slope = 1, which is the expected random response without the model.

In this example, the gain chart shows a sharp increase above the reference line, then a flattening. In this case, approximately 40% of the data account for approximately 78% of the true positives. Thus, if a business targets the 20% of the population guided by the model, the percent of the true positive rate is about 40%. Without the model, the corresponding percent is 20%. This difference is the extra gain from using the model.

Interpretation of Lift chart

The out-of-bag line represents the expected response using the predictive model. Lift is the ratio of the gain percentage relative to the expected random result. The dotted reference line represents a cumulative lift of 1, which means that there is no gain compared with random assignment.

In this example, the lift chart shows a large increase above the reference line that gradually drops off. Thus, using this model, if we contact the 10% of customers with the highest predicted probabilities to respond, we expect to receive more than twice as many responses than we would expect if we contacted 10% of the customers at random.

Gain chart and Lift chart for Random Forests® Classification

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Interpretation of Gain chart

Interpretation of Lift chart

Gain chart and Lift chart for Random Forests^® Classification