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What does ROC stand for?

Receiver Operating Characteristic (signal detection theory)


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The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was used to test the accuracy of continuously coded and categorized predictors.
[FIGURE 2 OMITTED] Furthermore, we evaluated the ability of FS1 to discriminate 3 groups of hypnotizability by means of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves.
95 Hardcover Monographs on statistics and applied probability; 111 QA279 Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves first appeared during World War II as a statistical technique for analyzing radar signals, was retooled during the 1950s, and is now ubiquitous in a wide variety of fields.
Indekslerin dusuk t skorlu hastalari ayirt edebilme yeteneklerini degerlendirmek amaciyla Algilayici Isletim Egrisi [Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC)] analizi kullanilarak egri altinda kalan alan [Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristics Curve (AUROC)] hesaplamasi yapildi.
The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis showed a satisfactory accuracy for enterolactone as a breast cancer risk indicator (area under the curve (AUC)=0.
We combined these metrics and estimated the area under the weighted receiver operating characteristic curve (AUWROC) as an overall measure of performance (10).
A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to plot the data.
10) Methods to determine MCID include patient self-report, expert consensus, and statistical methods such as the SEM and the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve.

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