The clinical meaning of the area under a receiver operating characteristic curve for the evaluation of the performance of disease markers

OBJECTIVES The area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) is a popular measure of pure diagnostic accuracy that is independent from the proportion of diseased subjects in the analysed sample. However, its actual usefulness in the clinical context has been questioned, because it...

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Main Authors: Stefano Parodi, Damiano Verda, Francesca Bagnasco, Marco Muselli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society of Epidemiology 2022-10-01
Series:Epidemiology and Health
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Online Access:http://www.e-epih.org/upload/epih-44-e2022088.pdf