Statistics review 13: Receiver operating characteristic curves

doi:10.1186/cc3000

Critical Care
Volume 8
Issue 6

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This article is part of a series on Medical statistics, edited by Jonathan Ball, Viv Bewick and Liz Cheek.

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Statistics review 13: Receiver operating characteristic curves

Viv Bewick¹ , Liz Cheek¹ and Jonathan Ball²

¹Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

²Senior Registrar in ICU, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia

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Critical Care 2004, 8:508-512doi:10.1186/cc3000


Published:	4 November 2004

Abstract

This review introduces some commonly used methods for assessing the performance of a diagnostic test. The sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratio of a test are discussed. The uses of the receiver operating characteristic curve and the area under the curve are explained.