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AUC stands for the Area Under the Curve and usually refers to the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

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I have some functions which take in multinomial classification results and plot them on a graph. Of the five models, LDA (in orange) seems to be the most performant. (all other information is show on ...
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I’ve been reading some papers in the neuroscience field, and I don’t quite understand the widespread use of AUC/ROC to test for group differences when analyzing neuronal firing over a range of seconds ...
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I have two binary classifiers and would like to check whether there is a statistically significant difference between the area under the ROC curve (AUROC). I have reason to opt for AUROC as my ...
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I'm using two independent predictors, A and B (Pearson correlation = 0), both standardized to the same scale, to predict a binary disease outcome using logistic regression. I'm comparing two modeling ...
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I am working on evaluating an explainability method for a text classification model that predicts whether a given text sequence contains hate speech or not. The method outputs token-level importance ...
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Can AUC be used for model selection, and how can the excessive number of features/parameters be penalized in this case? In frequentist framework we have various model selection criteria, like AIC, BIC,...
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I have written an SQL function to calculate the Area Under the Curve (AUC) based on rank-sum. However, when I compare the AUC values with F1 scores, I notice something strange: The model with the ...
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Im carrying out an external validation of a cause specific Cox model and would like to present the AUC and its confidence interval. I’ve seen several places where it’s described how a normal ...
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An influential 2009 paper, Measuring classifier performance: A coherent alternative to the area under the ROC curve, argues that the Area Under the Curve (AUC) "is fundamentally incoherent in ...
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When we try to determine the optimal threshold for a continuous predictor variable, we draw a ROC curve and calculate the AUC value. If AUC<0.5 this means that the predictor has an inverse ...
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I am working on a radiology AI project that aims to detect and classify lesions (aka abnormalities) in CT scans across multiple organs. The test set (n=200) is a mix of normal scans (50%) and abnormal ...
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Testing the difference between two AUCs seems to be straightforward. There are some relevant sources, like this one and links therein. I have an extremely simple case of two ROCs, similar to this ...
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When I got into Machine Learning over 15 years ago, I learned that AUC stands for "Area Under the Curve", meaning "area under the ROC curve" and ROC being the "Receiver ...
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I understand that AUC measures the model's ability to rank the subjects (see Why is ROC AUC equivalent to the probability that two randomly-selected samples are correctly ranked?). In contrast, binary ...
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Since the F1-score is threshold-dependent, would the area under F1 across all thresholds be an informative metric?
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