What's under the ROC? An introduction to receiver operating characteristics curves

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-128

  Streiner, David L ^a,b   Cairney, John ^b  

^a Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit and Department of Food and Nutrition Services and Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; AUC; Diagnosis; Receiver operating characteristic; ROC; Sensitivity; Specificity; Test performance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ERROR; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; PHOBIA; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; EVALUATION; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34248217945     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674370705200210     Document Type: Article

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