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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Korean Society of Epidemiology
2022-10-01
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Series: | Epidemiology and Health |
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Online Access: | http://www.e-epih.org/upload/epih-44-e2022088.pdf |