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What is the purpose of an ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) plot?
What is the purpose of an ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) plot?
- To visualize the trade-off between true positive rate and false positive rate
- To determine the optimal decision threshold for a classification model
- To compare the performance of different classification models
- All of the above (correct)
What does the area under the curve (AUC) of an ROC plot represent?
What does the area under the curve (AUC) of an ROC plot represent?
- The proportion of correctly classified instances
- The probability that the model will rank a random positive instance higher than a random negative instance (correct)
- The optimal decision threshold for the classification model
- The overall accuracy of the classification model
What is the true positive rate (TPR) in the context of an ROC plot?
What is the true positive rate (TPR) in the context of an ROC plot?
- The proportion of actual negatives that are correctly identified as negative
- The proportion of predicted positives that are actually positive
- The proportion of predicted negatives that are actually negative
- The proportion of actual positives that are correctly identified as positive (correct)
What is the false positive rate (FPR) in the context of an ROC plot?
What is the false positive rate (FPR) in the context of an ROC plot?
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What is a likelihood ratio (LR) in the context of medical testing?
What is a likelihood ratio (LR) in the context of medical testing?
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What does a high likelihood ratio (LR) value indicate in medical testing?
What does a high likelihood ratio (LR) value indicate in medical testing?
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Which of the following statements about the ROC curve is true?
Which of the following statements about the ROC curve is true?
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What is the interpretation of an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.8 for an ROC plot?
What is the interpretation of an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.8 for an ROC plot?
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What is the purpose of using likelihood ratios (LRs) in medical testing?
What is the purpose of using likelihood ratios (LRs) in medical testing?
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Which of the following statements about likelihood ratios (LRs) is true?
Which of the following statements about likelihood ratios (LRs) is true?
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