function [bestEpsilon bestF1] = selectThreshold(yval, pval) %SELECTTHRESHOLD Find the best threshold (epsilon) to use for selecting %outliers % [bestEpsilon bestF1] = SELECTTHRESHOLD(yval, pval) finds the best % threshold to use for selecting outliers based on the results from a % validation set (pval) and the ground truth (yval). % bestEpsilon = 0; bestF1 = 0; stepsize = (max(pval) - min(pval)) / 1000; for epsilon = min(pval):stepsize:max(pval) cvP = pval < epsilon; tp = sum(cvP & yval); fp = sum(cvP & (yval == 0)); fn = sum((cvP == 0) & yval); prec = tp / (tp + fp); rec = tp / (tp + fn); F1 = 2 * prec * rec / (prec + rec); % ====================== YOUR CODE HERE ====================== % Instructions: Compute the F1 score of choosing epsilon as the % threshold and place the value in F1. The code at the % end of the loop will compare the F1 score for this % choice of epsilon and set it to be the best epsilon if % it is better than the current choice of epsilon. % % Note: You can use predictions = (pval < epsilon) to get a binary vector % of 0's and 1's of the outlier predictions % ============================================================= if F1 > bestF1 bestF1 = F1; bestEpsilon = epsilon; end end end