ROC curves, test accuracy, and the description of diagnostic tests
- 1 August 1991
- journal article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Vol. 3 (3) , 330-333
- https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.3.3.330
Abstract
Clinicians can gain an enhanced understanding of the role of diagnostic tests once they are familiar and comfortable with the descriptions of test performance provided by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. This article explores the ways that ROC methods quantify test accuracy and describes how ROC methods characterize the distributions of test outcomes in study populations.Keywords
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