Dear scikit-learn developers,

I am proposing to include the reference to this article of mine about the Matthews correlation coefficient because it describes some mathematical properties of MCC, some mathematical relationships between MCC and other measures (F1 score and accuracy), and some use cases about how it works and what message it generates.
I think this information might be useful for the scikit-learn users who would like to know more about MCC.

I am available to provide additional information, of course.

Thanks for considering my pull request.

-- Davide

Can someone let me know if my request can be considered? Thank you

Can we proceed with the pull request merge? Thank you

Did you have a response to my suggestion? In the user guide you would specifically note the conclusion of your work. The docstring references tend to pertain to the definition or scope of a metric, not the respective advantages.

Did you have a response to my suggestion? In the user guide you would specifically note the conclusion of your work. The docstring references tend to pertain to the definition or scope of a metric, not the respective advantages.

Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I checked the user guide and found no references to scientific articles. Do you refer to this document or to something else?

I think most of the references in matthews_corrcoef should get moved to the user guide.

A good example of references for a metric is the DET User guide. You can place references for MCC in doc/modules/model_evaluation.rst in the section that discuss MCC.

I think most of the references in matthews_corrcoef should get moved to the user guide.

A good example of references for a metric is the DET User guide. You can place references for MCC in doc/modules/model_evaluation.rst in the section that discuss MCC.

Thanks for the suggestion; I will try to do it. I will close this issue then.