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Evaluating diagnostic tests: The area under the ROC curve and the balance of errors
Authors:David J. Hand
Affiliation:Imperial College, London
Abstract:Because accurate diagnosis lies at the heart of medicine, it is important to be able to evaluate the effectiveness of diagnostic tests. A variety of accuracy measures are used. One particularly widely used measure is the AUC, the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. This measure has a well‐understood weakness when comparing ROC curves which cross. However, it also has the more fundamental weakness of failing to balance different kinds of misdiagnoses effectively. This is not merely an aspect of the inevitable arbitrariness in choosing a performance measure, but is a core property of the way the AUC is defined. This property is explored, and an alternative, the H measure, is described. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords:diagnosis  ROC curve  area under the curve  H measure
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