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To describe the theoretical role and practical utility of receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) plots for evaluating diagnostic accuracy in clinical medicine.

April 1, 1993Clinical Chemistry

Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) plots: a fundamental evaluation tool in clinical medicine

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MZM H ZweigNational Institutes of Health GCGregory CampbellNational Council for the Traditional Arts

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Methodological review demonstrates the utility of ROC plots in clinical diagnostics, highlighting their role in evaluating test accuracy across varied decision thresholds.

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To describe the theoretical role and practical utility of receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) plots for evaluating diagnostic accuracy in clinical medicine.
Conceptual evaluation of laboratory test performance metrics, distinguishing intrinsic diagnostic accuracy from practical clinical usefulness.
Methodological framework detailing how ROC plots map classification trade-offs across all potential decision thresholds.
ROC plots provide an unconfounded index of diagnostic accuracy across the full range of operating conditions.
The generated plots serve as a unifying foundation for advanced statistical techniques, including likelihood ratio adjustments, logistic regression, and decision analysis.

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Zweig et al. (1993) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dee9af499d77a496b0d2d2 https://doi.org/10.1093/clinchem/39.4.561

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Methodological review demonstrates the utility of ROC plots in clinical diagnostics, highlighting their role in evaluating test accuracy across varied decision thresholds.

Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) plots: a fundamental evaluation tool in clinical medicine

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Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) plots: a fundamental evaluation tool in clinical medicine

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