Practice - The Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve and Area Under the Curve (AUC)
Practice Questions
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What does ROC stand for?
💡 Hint: Think about what the acronym represents in the context of classification.
True or False: AUC values range from 0 to 1.
💡 Hint: Consider what AUC signifies as a performance metric.
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What does a perfect classifier's AUC score equal?
💡 Hint: Consider what a perfect classifier means in practical terms.
True or False: Lowering the threshold will always result in a higher true positive rate.
💡 Hint: Think about how thresholds influence classification outcomes.
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Challenge Problems
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You have a model with an AUC of 0.85. Briefly explain what this tells you about the model, and whether it suffices for fraud detection purposes.
💡 Hint: Consider the impacts of false negatives in fraud cases.
Create an ROC curve using hypothetical true positive and false positive values, and explain how you would interpret the shape and area.
💡 Hint: Think about how each plotted point influences the overall evaluation of the classifier.
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