xskillscore.Contingency.peirce_score

Contingency.peirce_score()

Returns the Peirce skill score(s) (Hanssen and Kuipers discriminantor true skill statistic) for a contingency table with K categories.

\[PS = \frac{\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^{K}n(F_i, O_i) - \frac{1}{N^2}\sum_{i=1}^{K}N(F_i)N(O_i)}{1 - \frac{1}{N^2}\sum_{i=1}^{K}N(O_i)^2}\]
Returns:

An array containing the Peirce score(s)

Return type:

xarray.Dataset or xarray.DataArray

References

https://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/#Contingency_table