Re: st: ROC curve analysis

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 14:35 30/05/2005, Heather Gold wrote:
> Of course, you're right, Ricardo. There seemed to be one "optimal" point 
> when looking at the graph, and that's what point I wanted to identify. 
> Thanks for the tip on detail option -- I'll try that.
>
> Do you happen to know any good tutorials on ROC curve analysis, something 
> beyond the basics?
Newson (2002) contains a few things about ROC areas and their connection 
with rank statistics, and also a few further references about ROC curves. A 
.pdf preprint of this paper can be downloaded from my website (see my 
signature below), possibly from within Stata by typing

findit params

which will show you the way. By the way, the -senspec- package 
(downloadable from SSC) can be used to calculate sensitivities and 
specificities and to store them in variables, so that users can make plots 
and/or tables of their own.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


References

Newson R. 2002. Parameters behind "nonparametric" statistics: Kendall's 
tau, Somers' D and median differences. The Stata Journal 2(1): 45-64.



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