title: ROC with confidence - a Perl program for receiver operator characteristic curves.
abstract: Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves are recommended to assess the diagnostic value of tests depending on a single cut-off value of a continuous variable. These ROC curves show the true-positive rate (sensitivity) against the false-positive rate (1-specificity). It is desirable, especially in situations with small samples of observations, to display confidence bounds of the ROC curve. This paper presents a Perl program which calculates the ROC curve and its distribution-free confidence bounds. A simple user interface also written in Perl permits their display.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm, Robert-Koch-Str. 8, 89081, Ulm, Germany. hans.kestler@medizin.uni-ulm.de
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Kestler
mesh_terms: D016001:Confidence Intervals; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012372:ROC Curve; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface