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Functional markers become a more frequent tool in medical diagnosis. In this paper, we aim to define an index allowing to discriminate between populations when the observations are functional data belonging to a Hilbert space. We discuss…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-03 Ana M. Bianco , Graciela Boente , Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernández

Many evaluation methods exist, each for a particular prediction task, and there are a number of prediction tasks commonly performed including classification and regression. In binarised regression, binary decisions are generated from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Matthew Dirks , David Poole

The receiver operating characteristic curve is widely applied in measuring the performance of diagnostic tests. Many direct and indirect approaches have been proposed for modelling the ROC curve, and because of its tractability, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-09 Amay Cheam , Paul D. McNicholas

The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is a very useful tool for analyzing the diagnostic/classification power of instruments/classification schemes as long as a binary-scale gold standard is available. When the gold standard is…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-05-10 Zhanfeng Wang , Yuan-chin Ivan Chang

A new semiparametric model of the ROC curve based on the resilience family or proportional reversed hazard family is proposed which is an alternative to the existing models. The resulting ROC curve and its summary indices (such as area…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-28 Ruhul Ali Khan

Robust Ordinal Regression (ROR) is a way of dealing with Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA), by considering all sets of parameters of an assumed preference model, that are compatible with preference information given by the Decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-28 Salvatore Corrente , Salvatore Greco , Roman Slowinski

Robust Optimal Control (ROC) with adjustable uncertainties has proven to be effective in addressing critical challenges within modern energy networks, especially the reserve and provision problem. However, prior research on ROC with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Yun Li , Neil Yorke-Smith , Tamas Keviczky

Assessment of risk prediction models has primarily utilized measures of discrimination, the ROC curve AUC and C-statistic. These derive from the risk distributions of patients and nonpatients, which in turn are derived from a population…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-05 Ralph H. Stern

Foundation models often generate unreliable answers, while heuristic uncertainty estimators fail to fully distinguish correct from incorrect outputs, causing users to accept erroneous answers without any statistical guarantee. We address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhiyuan Wang , Aniri , Tianlong Chen , Yue Zhang , Heng Tao Shen , Xiaoshuang Shi , Kaidi Xu

In machine learning contests such as the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge and the KDD Cup, contestants can submit candidate solutions and receive from an oracle (typically the organizers of the competition) the accuracy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Jacob Whitehill

Time-dependent Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) analysis is a standard method to evaluate the discriminative performance of biomarkers or risk scores for time-to-event outcomes. Extensions of this useful method to left-truncated…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-09 Kendrick Li , Mithun Kumar Acharjee

Graph classification in medical imaging and drug discovery requires accuracy and robust uncertainty quantification. To address this need, we introduce Conditional Prediction ROC (CP-ROC) bands, offering uncertainty quantification for ROC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yujia Wu , Bo Yang , Elynn Chen , Yuzhou Chen , Zheshi Zheng

We investigate a long-debated question, which is how to create predictive models of recidivism that are sufficiently accurate, transparent, and interpretable to use for decision-making. This question is complicated as these models are used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-20 Jiaming Zeng , Berk Ustun , Cynthia Rudin

Model order selection (MOS) in linear regression models is a widely studied problem in signal processing. Techniques based on information theoretic criteria (ITC) are algorithms of choice in MOS problems. This article proposes a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Sreejith Kallummil , Sheetal Kalyani

This paper investigates the influencing factors in passengers' multimodal traffic choice behaviors and provides a decision-making basis and improvement strategies. By collecting large individual-level data through a comprehensive field…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-03 Xiaowei Li , Xiaojiao Hu , Junqing Tang , Wei Wang

We study an optimal threshold functional arising in binary classification for continuous biomarkers. While the ROC curve summarizes discriminatory performance across all thresholds, practical threshold selection must also account for…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-11 Renato de Paula , Helena Mouriño , Tiago Dias Domingues

Although binary classification is a well-studied problem in computer vision, training reliable classifiers under severe class imbalance remains a challenging problem. Recent work has proposed techniques that mitigate the effects of training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kelsey Lieberman , Shuai Yuan , Swarna Kamlam Ravindran , Carlo Tomasi

The Area Under the the Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) Curve, referred to as AUC, is a well-known performance measure in the supervised learning domain. Due to its compelling features, it has been employed in a number of studies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Pablo Andretta Jaskowiak , Ivan Gesteira Costa , Ricardo José Gabrielli Barreto Campello

The ROC curve is widely used to assess binary classifiers. Yet for some applications, such as alert systems for monitoring hospitalized patients, conventional ROC analysis cannot meet two key deployment needs: enforcing a constraint on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Christopher Ratigan , Kyle Heuton , Carissa Wang , Lenore Cowen , Michael C. Hughes

Outcome Reporting Bias (ORB) poses significant threats to the validity of meta-analytic findings. It occurs when researchers selectively report outcomes based on the significance or direction of results, potentially leading to distorted…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-17 Alessandra Gaia Saracini , Leonhard Held