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Table 2 Performance measures for SVM-RBF at different confidence thresholds in EU and SA ( \(\pmb{\mathrm{Positive}=\mathrm{Women}}\) , \(\pmb{\mathrm{Negative}=\mathrm{Men}}\) ): True Positive Rate (TPR), False Negative Rate (FNR), True Negative Rate (TNR), False Positive Rate (FPR)

From: Improving official statistics in emerging markets using machine learning and mobile phone data

Country

Confidence subset

TPR

FNR

TNR

FPR

EU

25%

90.0

10.0

89.1

10.9

100%

74.5

25.5

74.4

25.6

SA

25%

83.9

16.1

77.0

23.0

100%

67.2

32.8

76.4

23.6