What does the area under the ROC curve (AUC) represent?

Practice Questions

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What does the area under the ROC curve (AUC) represent?
  1. The probability that a randomly chosen positive instance is ranked higher than a randomly chosen negative instance
  2. The overall accuracy of the model
  3. The precision of the model
  4. The recall of the model

Questions & Step-by-Step Solutions

What does the area under the ROC curve (AUC) represent?
  • Step 1: Understand that ROC stands for Receiver Operating Characteristic, which is a graph that shows the performance of a model.
  • Step 2: Know that the curve is created by plotting the True Positive Rate (sensitivity) against the False Positive Rate (1 - specificity).
  • Step 3: Realize that the area under the ROC curve (AUC) measures how well the model can separate positive cases from negative cases.
  • Step 4: AUC values range from 0 to 1, where 0.5 means the model has no discrimination ability (like random guessing) and 1 means perfect discrimination.
  • Step 5: Conclude that a higher AUC value indicates a better ability of the model to distinguish between the positive and negative classes.
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