A suite of tools for ROC analysis of spatial models

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 869-887

  Mas, Jean François ^a   Filho, Britaldo Soares ^b   Pontius, Robert Gilmore ^c   Gutiérrez, Michelle Farfán ^a   Rodrigues, Hermann ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; AUC; Dinamica EGO; LUCC; Prediction; ROC; Species distribution modeling; Uncertainty; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886005457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi2030869     Document Type: Article

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