title: Bounds on the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for the ideal observer.
abstract: A new upper bound is derived on the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for the ideal observer in a signal-detection task. This upper bound is determined by the values of the likelihood-generating function and its second derivative at the origin. This bound is compared with other bounds on ideal-observer performance that have been derived recently, and it is also shown how this bound leads to some asymptotic results for approximations to ideal-observer performance.
mesh_terms: D019540:Area Under Curve; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012372:ROC Curve; D017603:Signal Detection, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*