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In this work, we offer a theoretical explanation of the convexity of the ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curves for rational binary classifiers, and show some natural important inequalities relating different measures of accuracy.
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Phuong, L.B., Zung, N.T. (2023). Accuracy Measures and the Convexity of ROC Curves for Binary Classification Problems. In: Phuong, N.H., Kreinovich, V. (eds) Biomedical and Other Applications of Soft Computing. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1045. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08580-2_15
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