diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetricComputers.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetricComputers.scala
index 34583da800079..562663ad36b40 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetricComputers.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetricComputers.scala
@@ -27,19 +27,19 @@ private[evaluation] trait BinaryClassificationMetricComputer extends Serializabl
 /** Precision. */
 private[evaluation] object Precision extends BinaryClassificationMetricComputer {
   override def apply(c: BinaryConfusionMatrix): Double =
-    c.tp.toDouble / (c.tp + c.fp)
+    c.numTruePositives.toDouble / (c.numTruePositives + c.numFalsePositives)
 }
 
 /** False positive rate. */
 private[evaluation] object FalsePositiveRate extends BinaryClassificationMetricComputer {
   override def apply(c: BinaryConfusionMatrix): Double =
-    c.fp.toDouble / c.n
+    c.numFalsePositives.toDouble / c.numNegatives
 }
 
 /** Recall. */
 private[evaluation] object Recall extends BinaryClassificationMetricComputer {
   override def apply(c: BinaryConfusionMatrix): Double =
-    c.tp.toDouble / c.p
+    c.numTruePositives.toDouble / c.numPositives
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetrics.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetrics.scala
index 658142b0ebf53..ed7b0fc943367 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetrics.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetrics.scala
@@ -33,22 +33,22 @@ private case class BinaryConfusionMatrixImpl(
     totalCount: LabelCounter) extends BinaryConfusionMatrix with Serializable {
 
   /** number of true positives */
-  override def tp: Long = count.numPositives
+  override def numTruePositives: Long = count.numPositives
 
   /** number of false positives */
-  override def fp: Long = count.numNegatives
+  override def numFalsePositives: Long = count.numNegatives
 
   /** number of false negatives */
-  override def fn: Long = totalCount.numPositives - count.numPositives
+  override def numFalseNegatives: Long = totalCount.numPositives - count.numPositives
 
   /** number of true negatives */
-  override def tn: Long = totalCount.numNegatives - count.numNegatives
+  override def numTrueNegatives: Long = totalCount.numNegatives - count.numNegatives
 
   /** number of positives */
-  override def p: Long = totalCount.numPositives
+  override def numPositives: Long = totalCount.numPositives
 
   /** number of negatives */
-  override def n: Long = totalCount.numNegatives
+  override def numNegatives: Long = totalCount.numNegatives
 }
 
 /**
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ private case class BinaryConfusionMatrixImpl(
  * @param scoreAndLabels an RDD of (score, label) pairs.
  */
 class BinaryClassificationMetrics(scoreAndLabels: RDD[(Double, Double)])
-    extends Serializable with Logging {
+  extends Serializable with Logging {
 
   private lazy val (
-      cumCounts: RDD[(Double, LabelCounter)],
+      cumulativeCounts: RDD[(Double, LabelCounter)],
       confusions: RDD[(Double, BinaryConfusionMatrix)]) = {
     // Create a bin for each distinct score value, count positives and negatives within each bin,
     // and then sort by score values in descending order.
@@ -74,32 +74,32 @@ class BinaryClassificationMetrics(scoreAndLabels: RDD[(Double, Double)])
       iter.foreach(agg += _)
       Iterator(agg)
     }, preservesPartitioning = true).collect()
-    val partitionwiseCumCounts =
+    val partitionwiseCumulativeCounts =
       agg.scanLeft(new LabelCounter())((agg: LabelCounter, c: LabelCounter) => agg.clone() += c)
-    val totalCount = partitionwiseCumCounts.last
+    val totalCount = partitionwiseCumulativeCounts.last
     logInfo(s"Total counts: $totalCount")
-    val cumCounts = counts.mapPartitionsWithIndex(
+    val cumulativeCounts = counts.mapPartitionsWithIndex(
       (index: Int, iter: Iterator[(Double, LabelCounter)]) => {
-        val cumCount = partitionwiseCumCounts(index)
+        val cumCount = partitionwiseCumulativeCounts(index)
         iter.map { case (score, c) =>
           cumCount += c
           (score, cumCount.clone())
         }
       }, preservesPartitioning = true)
-    cumCounts.persist()
-    val confusions = cumCounts.map { case (score, cumCount) =>
+    cumulativeCounts.persist()
+    val confusions = cumulativeCounts.map { case (score, cumCount) =>
       (score, BinaryConfusionMatrixImpl(cumCount, totalCount).asInstanceOf[BinaryConfusionMatrix])
     }
-    (cumCounts, confusions)
+    (cumulativeCounts, confusions)
   }
 
   /** Unpersist intermediate RDDs used in the computation. */
   def unpersist() {
-    cumCounts.unpersist()
+    cumulativeCounts.unpersist()
   }
 
   /** Returns thresholds in descending order. */
-  def thresholds(): RDD[Double] = cumCounts.map(_._1)
+  def thresholds(): RDD[Double] = cumulativeCounts.map(_._1)
 
   /**
    * Returns the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve,
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryConfusionMatrix.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryConfusionMatrix.scala
index f846d05cd894c..75a75b216002a 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryConfusionMatrix.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryConfusionMatrix.scala
@@ -22,20 +22,20 @@ package org.apache.spark.mllib.evaluation.binary
  */
 private[evaluation] trait BinaryConfusionMatrix {
   /** number of true positives */
-  def tp: Long
+  def numTruePositives: Long
 
   /** number of false positives */
-  def fp: Long
+  def numFalsePositives: Long
 
   /** number of false negatives */
-  def fn: Long
+  def numFalseNegatives: Long
 
   /** number of true negatives */
-  def tn: Long
+  def numTrueNegatives: Long
 
   /** number of positives */
-  def p: Long = tp + fn
+  def numPositives: Long = numTruePositives + numFalseNegatives
 
   /** number of negatives */
-  def n: Long = fp + tn
+  def numNegatives: Long = numFalsePositives + numTrueNegatives
 }
diff --git a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetricsSuite.scala b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetricsSuite.scala
index f92adbe8378c6..173fdaefab3da 100644
--- a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetricsSuite.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/binary/BinaryClassificationMetricsSuite.scala
@@ -27,27 +27,29 @@ class BinaryClassificationMetricsSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
     val scoreAndLabels = sc.parallelize(
       Seq((0.1, 0.0), (0.1, 1.0), (0.4, 0.0), (0.6, 0.0), (0.6, 1.0), (0.6, 1.0), (0.8, 1.0)), 2)
     val metrics = new BinaryClassificationMetrics(scoreAndLabels)
-    val score = Seq(0.8, 0.6, 0.4, 0.1)
-    val tp = Seq(1, 3, 3, 4)
-    val fp = Seq(0, 1, 2, 3)
-    val p = 4
-    val n = 3
-    val precision = tp.zip(fp).map { case (t, f) => t.toDouble / (t + f) }
-    val recall = tp.map(t => t.toDouble / p)
-    val fpr = fp.map(f => f.toDouble / n)
+    val threshold = Seq(0.8, 0.6, 0.4, 0.1)
+    val numTruePositives = Seq(1, 3, 3, 4)
+    val numFalsePositives = Seq(0, 1, 2, 3)
+    val numPositives = 4
+    val numNegatives = 3
+    val precision = numTruePositives.zip(numFalsePositives).map { case (t, f) =>
+      t.toDouble / (t + f)
+    }
+    val recall = numTruePositives.map(t => t.toDouble / numPositives)
+    val fpr = numFalsePositives.map(f => f.toDouble / numNegatives)
     val rocCurve = Seq((0.0, 0.0)) ++ fpr.zip(recall) ++ Seq((1.0, 1.0))
     val pr = recall.zip(precision)
     val prCurve = Seq((0.0, 1.0)) ++ pr
-    val f1 = pr.map { case (re, prec) => 2.0 * (prec * re) / (prec + re) }
-    val f2 = pr.map { case (re, prec) => 5.0 * (prec * re) / (4.0 * prec + re)}
-    assert(metrics.thresholds().collect().toSeq === score)
+    val f1 = pr.map { case (r, p) => 2.0 * (p * r) / (p + r) }
+    val f2 = pr.map { case (r, p) => 5.0 * (p * r) / (4.0 * p + r)}
+    assert(metrics.thresholds().collect().toSeq === threshold)
     assert(metrics.roc().collect().toSeq === rocCurve)
     assert(metrics.areaUnderROC() === AreaUnderCurve.of(rocCurve))
     assert(metrics.pr().collect().toSeq === prCurve)
     assert(metrics.areaUnderPR() === AreaUnderCurve.of(prCurve))
-    assert(metrics.fMeasureByThreshold().collect().toSeq === score.zip(f1))
-    assert(metrics.fMeasureByThreshold(2.0).collect().toSeq === score.zip(f2))
-    assert(metrics.precisionByThreshold().collect().toSeq === score.zip(precision))
-    assert(metrics.recallByThreshold().collect().toSeq === score.zip(recall))
+    assert(metrics.fMeasureByThreshold().collect().toSeq === threshold.zip(f1))
+    assert(metrics.fMeasureByThreshold(2.0).collect().toSeq === threshold.zip(f2))
+    assert(metrics.precisionByThreshold().collect().toSeq === threshold.zip(precision))
+    assert(metrics.recallByThreshold().collect().toSeq === threshold.zip(recall))
   }
 }