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Average odds difference metric
Last updated: Feb 13, 2025
Average odds difference metric

The average odds difference metric measures the difference in false positive and false negative rates between monitored and reference groups.

Metric details

Average odds difference is a fairnes evaluation metric that can help determine whether your asset produces biased outcomes.

Scope

The average odds difference metric evaluates generative AI assets and machine learning models.

  • Types of AI assets:
    • Prompt templates
    • Machine learning models
  • Generative AI tasks: Text classification
  • Machine learning problem type: Binary classification

Scores and values

The average odds difference metric score indicates the difference in false positive and false negative rates for monitored and reference groups.

  • Range of values: 0.0-1.0
  • Best possible score: 0.0
  • Ratios:
    • At 0: Both groups have equal odds
    • Under 0: Biased outcomes for monitored group
    • Over 0: Biased outcomes for reference group

Do the math

The following formula is used for calculating false positive rate (FPR):

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The following formula is used for calculating true positive rate (TPR):

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The following formula is used for calculating average odds difference:

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Parent topic: Evaluation metrics