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Auc Roc: "Area Under The Curve" (AUC) of The "Receiver Operating Characteristic" (ROC)

The document discusses AUC-ROC curves which help visualize machine learning classifier performance for binary classification problems. It explains true positive rate, false negative rate, specificity, and false positive rate. It also describes how adjusting prediction thresholds can impact these metrics and how ROC curves plot true positive rate against false positive rate at different thresholds, with the area under the curve used to summarize model performance.

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Auc Roc: "Area Under The Curve" (AUC) of The "Receiver Operating Characteristic" (ROC)

The document discusses AUC-ROC curves which help visualize machine learning classifier performance for binary classification problems. It explains true positive rate, false negative rate, specificity, and false positive rate. It also describes how adjusting prediction thresholds can impact these metrics and how ROC curves plot true positive rate against false positive rate at different thresholds, with the area under the curve used to summarize model performance.

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AUC ROC

“Area Under the Curve” (AUC) of the “Receiver


Operating Characteristic” (ROC)
AUC-ROC
• AUC-ROC curve helps us visualize how well our machine learning
classifier performs.
• Tt works only for binary classification problems.
Sensitivity / True Positive Rate / Recall

False Negative Rate


Specificity / True Negative Rate

A higher TNR and a lower FPR are desirable since we want to classify the negative class correctly.
Probability of Predictions

• A machine learning classification model can be used to-


• Directly predict the data point’s actual class or
• Predict its probability of belonging to different classes.
• The latter gives us more control over the result.
• Setting different thresholds for classifying positive classes for data points will
change the Sensitivity and Specificity of the model.
• And one of these thresholds will probably give a better result than the others,
depending on whether we are aiming to lower the number of False Negatives or
False Positives.
• ROC is a probability curve that plots
the TPR against FPR at various threshold values.

• The Area Under the Curve (AUC) is the measure of the


ability of a binary classifier to distinguish between classes
and is used as a summary of the ROC curve.

• The higher the AUC, the better the model’s performance


at distinguishing between the positive and negative
classes.

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