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He calls it a "relative operating characteristic curve", then links to a Wikipedia article for the properly named "receiver operating characteristic curve". Ma
by itsmejeff 8y ago
He calls it a "relative operating characteristic curve", then links to a Wikipedia article for the properly named "receiver operating characteristic curve". Maybe I'm wrong but I've never heard the former term used.
- DataJunkie 8y agoMe neither.
- salty_biscuits 8y agoIt's receiver. I believe it came about from operators looking radar receivers and fiddling with the gain. Low gain, nothing is a target, high gain everything is a target.
- smittywerben 8y agoI like your interpretation as filter/signal logic.
- hprotagonist 8y agoit’s the first way we began thinking about ROC. My understanding agrees with the GP: this was a norbert wiener- era application of binary classifiers for “is there a submarine there, or not?” tasks. ROC was next adopted by the psychophysics community. “Did you hear that tone, or not” is a pretty easy extension of the original task...and involved many of the same researchers after the war was over.
- jasonb05 8y agoFixed, thanks.