What does the ROC curve represent in model evaluation?

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What does the ROC curve represent in model evaluation?
  1. Relationship between precision and recall
  2. Trade-off between true positive rate and false positive rate
  3. Model training time vs accuracy
  4. Data distribution visualization

Questions & Step-by-Step Solutions

What does the ROC curve represent in model evaluation?
  • Step 1: Understand that the ROC curve is a graphical representation used to evaluate the performance of a classification model.
  • Step 2: Know that the ROC curve plots two important rates: the true positive rate (TPR) and the false positive rate (FPR).
  • Step 3: The true positive rate (sensitivity) measures how many actual positive cases were correctly identified by the model.
  • Step 4: The false positive rate measures how many actual negative cases were incorrectly identified as positive by the model.
  • Step 5: The ROC curve shows how the TPR and FPR change when you adjust the threshold for classifying a positive case.
  • Step 6: A model with a better performance will have a ROC curve that is closer to the top-left corner of the graph, indicating a high TPR and a low FPR.
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