On Bootstrapping the ROC Curve

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 (NIPS 2008)

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Authors

Patrice Bertail, Stéphan Clémençcon, Nicolas Vayatis

Abstract

This paper is devoted to thoroughly investigating how to bootstrap the ROC curve, a widely used visual tool for evaluating the accuracy of test/scoring statistics in the bipartite setup. The issue of confidence bands for the ROC curve is considered and a resampling procedure based on a smooth version of the empirical distribution called the smoothed bootstrap" is introduced. Theoretical arguments and simulation results are presented to show that the "smoothed bootstrap" is preferable to a "naive" bootstrap in order to construct accurate confidence bands."