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ROC analysis

ROC analysis evaluates how well a continuous or ordinal test variable discriminates between two binary outcome classes. By plotting the true positive rate (sensitivity) against the false positive rate (1 − specificity) across all decision thresholds, it produces a curve whose area under the curve (AUC) quantifies overall discriminative power, ranging from 0.5 (chance) to 1.0 (perfect discrimination).

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Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis
Taxonomic method record · hypothesis-test / statistics
  • Hanley, J. A., & McNeil, B. J. (1982). The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Radiology, 143(1), 29–36. · DOI 10.1148/radiology.143.1.7063747
  • Zweig, M. H., & Campbell, G. (1993). Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) plots: a fundamental evaluation tool in clinical medicine. Clinical Chemistry, 39(4), 561–577. · DOI 10.1093/clinchem/39.4.561
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Used in the same domainDiscriminant Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketEffect size analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketKendall's taumachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoSensitivity and Specificitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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