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Accuracy Assessment Final Matrix

Table 9.  Final Contingency Table for Vegetation Accuracy Assessment
    COMMISSION 90% CONFIDENCE
REFERENCE CLASS ERROR - %  INTERVAL
            TOTAL N CORRECT - +
  BW PT GS PP1 PP2        
BW 1 0 0 0 0 1 100 10 100
MAP PT 0 2 0 0 0 2 100 31.6 100
CLASS GS 0 0 53 0 0 53 100 95.7 100
  PP1 0 0 0 67 23 23 74 67.1 80
  PP2 0 0 0 22 66 88 75 67.7 80.7
TOTAL N   1 2 53 89 89 234      
                     
OMISSION ERROR                  
% COREECT 100 100 100 75.3 74.2        
                     
90% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL                
-   10 31.6 95.7 68 66.7        
+   100 100 100 80.9 80        
                     
OVERALL TOTAL ACCURACY = 80.8
OVERALL KAPPA INDEX = 70.8
OVERALL TOTAL ACCURACY 90% LOWER & UPPER CONFIDENCE INTERVALS 75.7%, 84.88%
(OMISSION & COMMISSION ERRORS CALCULATED USING TOTAL ACCURACY, NOT USING KAPPPA INDEX)
   
  Key to Map Class Codes  
   
  BW Ash Leaf Maple / Choke Cherry Forest  
  PT Quaking Aspen / Choke Cherry Forest  
  GS Grass / Shrubland Complex  
  PP1 Ponderosa Pine Complex I  
  PP2 Ponderosa Pine Complex II            

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