Articles by Joseph B. Rickert

Smoothed ROC Curves, Calculus and Curvature

December 11, 2025 | Joseph B. Rickert

A common use of ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curves in data science is to evaluate performance of binary classifiers. In this use case, the data set is usually a sample from a population and so the ROC curve itself is a random object. Although it is not common to have ...
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