Bounds on the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for the ideal observer

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1963-1968

  Clarkson, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS (ROC);

SIGNAL DETECTION;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AREA UNDER CURVE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0036781238     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.001963     Document Type: Article

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