Difference between revisions of "Area Under the ROC Curve"

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Revision as of 11:50, 14 February 2011

The area under the ROC curve (AUC) is a measure for ranking quality. The best possible value is 1, and any ranking that makes sense would have an AUC > 0.5. AUC does not give a higher weight to items higher up in the ranking.

Wikipedia: Receiver operating characteristic