{"id":724,"date":"2014-05-19T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/?p=724"},"modified":"2014-05-19T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:51:32","slug":"statsminiblog-roc-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2014\/05\/19\/statsminiblog-roc-plots\/","title":{"rendered":"StatsMiniBlog: ROC plots"},"content":{"rendered":"

A (while ago) we published an explanatory page about ROC plots in the Education and Practice journal<\/a>. There are a few great reasons why we should replicate it here:<\/p>\n

1. So people can read it more easily<\/p>\n

2. Because it fits into the stuttering series on diagnostics<\/p>\n

3. It saves me having to write the same thing in different words.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

But what is a ROC plot? It’s a graph which uses the ‘receiver operating characteristic’ space — that is, how the sensitivity of a dichotomous test varies with the specificity — to produce an overview of one, or more, diagnostic test accuracy studies.<\/p>\n

The following should explain it …<\/p>\n

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\"Picture1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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.. but if its doesn’t, why not leave a comment of tweet a question to @ADC_BMJ and we’ll try to answer, annotate and acknowledge* your contribution!<\/p>\n

– Archi<\/p>\n

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(* Do you think anyone can tell I’ve been on a rhetoricician’s training day? **)<\/p>\n

(** You don’t have to answer that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A (while ago) we published an explanatory page about ROC plots in the Education and Practice journal. There are a few great reasons why we should replicate it here: 1. So people can read it more easily 2. Because it fits into the stuttering series on diagnostics 3. It saves me having to write the […]<\/p>\n

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