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Sensitivity and specificity are two fundamental issues in diagnostic tests. Experimental methods for generating the receiver operating curve (ROC) are described, and the ROC is used to provide estimates of sensitivity and specificity.
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Pepe, M. S. (2003). The statistical evaluation of medical tests for classification and prediction. Oxford University Press.
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Pardo, S.A. (2023). Diagnostics: Sensitivity and Specificity. In: Statistical Methods and Analyses for Medical Devices. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26139-8_10
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