Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to browse AJSM online!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Medical Decision Making
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Hilden, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Hilden, J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

The Area under the ROC Curve and Its Competitors

Jørgen Hilden, MD

The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is a popular measure of the power of a (two-disease) diagnostic test, but it is shown here to be an inconsistent criterion: tests of indistinguishable clinical impacts may have different areas. A class of diagnosticity measures (DMs) of proven optimality is proposed instead. Once a regret(-like) measure of diagnostic uncertainty is agreed upon, the associated DM is uniquely defined and, indeed, calculable from the ROC curve configuration. Two scaled variants of the ROC are introduced and used to advantage in the analysis. They may also be helpful to students of medical decision making.

Key Words: Key words: decision theory • diagnostic test • receiver operating characteristic. (Med Decis Making 1991 • 11:95-101)

Medical Decision Making, Vol. 11, No. 2, 95-101 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9101100204
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 CirculationHome page
I. Tzoulaki, G. D. Murray, A. J. Lee, A. Rumley, G. D.O. Lowe, and F. G. R. Fowkes
Relative Value of Inflammatory, Hemostatic, and Rheological Factors for Incident Myocardial Infarction and Stroke: The Edinburgh Artery Study
Circulation, April 24, 2007; 115(16): 2119 - 2127.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 ANN INTERN MEDHome page
D. M. Lloyd-Jones, K. Liu, L. Tian, and P. Greenland
Narrative Review: Assessment of C-Reactive Protein in Risk Prediction for Cardiovascular Disease
Ann Intern Med, July 4, 2006; 145(1): 35 - 42.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Med Decis MakingHome page
W. B. van den Hout
The Area under an ROC Curve with Limited Information
Med Decis Making, March 1, 2003; 23(2): 160 - 166.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Med Decis MakingHome page
A. D.M. Kester and F. Buntinx
Meta-analysis of ROC Curves
Med Decis Making, October 1, 2000; 20(4): 430 - 439.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Stat Methods Med ResHome page
D. E Shapiro
The interpretation of diagnostic tests
Statistical Methods in Medical Research, April 1, 1999; 8(2): 113 - 134.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Med Decis MakingHome page
J. Hilden
Neural Networks and the Roles of Cross Validation
Med Decis Making, January 1, 1998; 18(1): 122 - 123.
[PDF]

Home page
 Med Decis MakingHome page
K. G.M. Moons, T. Stijnen, B. C. Michel, H. R. Buller, G.-A. Van Es, D. E. Grobbee, and J. D. F. Habbema
Application of Treatment Thresholds to Diagnostic-test Evaluation: An Alternative to the Comparison of Areas under Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves
Med Decis Making, October 1, 1997; 17(4): 447 - 454.
[Abstract] [PDF]