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Threshold

A cut-off value that turns a model’s probability into a decision — for example, “flag the message if the chance it is spam is above 0.9.” Moving the threshold trades false alarms against missed cases, so choosing it is a product and policy decision, not only a technical one.

Origin · no single documented coiner

Ordinary statistics and engineering usage; no single coiner.

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