What is an area under the ROC curve?
See AUC (Area under the ROC curve).
area under the ROC curve explained in plain English
See AUC (Area under the ROC curve).
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Practitioners refer to area under the roc curve when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.
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