ROC curves for continuous data / authors, Wojtek J. Krzanowski and David J. Hand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krzanowski, W. J., author.

Contributor:

Hand, D. J. (David J.), 1950-

Series:

Monographs on statistics and applied probability (Series) ; 111.

Monographs on statistics and applied probability ; 111

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Receiver operating characteristic curves.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Since ROC curves have become ubiquitous in many application areas, the various advances have been scattered across disparate articles and texts. ROC Curves for Continuous Data is the first book solely devoted to the subject, bringing together all the relevant material to provide a clear understanding of how to analyze ROC curves.The fundamental theory of ROC curvesThe book first discusses the relationship between the ROC curve and numerous performance measures and then extends the theory into practice by describing how ROC curves are estimated. Further building on the theory, the authors prese

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Population ROC curves; Chapter 3: Estimation; Chapter 4: Further inference on single curves; Chapter 5: ROC curves and covariates; Chapter 6: Comparing ROC curves; Chapter 7: Bayesian methods; Chapter 8: Beyond the basics; Chapter 9: Design and interpretation issues; Chapter 10: Substantive applications; Appendix: ROC Software; References; Index

Notes:

"A Chapman & Hall book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-226) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-04-007282-8

0-429-16610-9

1-4398-0022-7

9780429166105

OCLC:

779923463