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Editorial
. 2012 Sep;62(602):452-3.
doi: 10.3399/bjgp12X653796.

Diagnosis: shifting the ROC curve

Kevin Barraclough
Editorial

Diagnosis: shifting the ROC curve

Kevin Barraclough. Br J Gen Pract. 2012 Sep.
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The receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve shows how good a clinical feature or test is in discriminating between disease and non disease. A good test achieves high levels of true positives with low levels of false positives. The better the test, the greater the area under the ROC curve.
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