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Using Smoothed Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves to Summarize and Compare Diagnostic Systems

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are used for summarizing the performance of imperfect diagnostic systems, especially in biomedical research. These curves are also appropriate for ...
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FUNCTIONAL COVARIATE-ADJUSTED PARTIAL AREA UNDER THE SPECIFICITY-ROC CURVE WITH AN APPLICATION TO METABOLIC SYNDROME DIAGNOSIS

Due to recent advances in technology, medical diagnosis data are becoming increasingly complex and, nowadays, applications where measurements are curves or images are ubiquitous. Motivated by the need ...
Simon Fraser University

Example 39.6: ROC Curve, Customized Odds Ratios, Goodness-of-Fit Statistics, R-Square, and Confidence Limits

The ROC curve is plotted by the GPLOT procedure, and the plot is shown in Output 39.6.3. symbol1 i=join v=none c=blue; proc gplot data=roc1; title 'ROC Curve'; plot _sensit_*_1mspec_=1 / vaxis=0 to 1 ...
Institute of Development Studies

Poverty Monitoring and Targeting Using ROC Curves: Examples From Vietnam

This paper suggests a low cost methodology for identifying and assessing the accuracy of poverty monitoring and targeting indicators. It proposes that the non-parametric technique of Receiver ...