ROC curve
/ˌɑːr oʊ ˈsiː ˌkɜːrv/
A graph showing classifier performance at various thresholds
ROC curve in a sentence
“The ROC curve demonstrated excellent discrimination between classes.”
Origin of ROC curve
Acronym for Receiver Operating Characteristic, from signal detection theory in 1940s
Related Words
AUC
Area Under the Curve, measuring overall model performance
confusion matrix
A table showing prediction results versus actual values
bias-variance tradeoff
The balance between underfitting and overfitting
regularization
Techniques to prevent overfitting by penalizing complexity
normalization
Scaling data to a standard range
imputation
Filling in missing data values