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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Published in:	Epidemiology and Health
Main Authors:	Stefano Parodi, Damiano Verda, Francesca Bagnasco, Marco Muselli
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Korean Society of Epidemiology 2022-10-01
Subjects:	receiver operating characteristic curve biomarkers diagnostic accuracy binormal model metz and kronman test
Online Access:	http://www.e-epih.org/upload/pdf/epih-44-e2022088.pdf