The partial area under the summary ROC curve

The area under the curve (AUC) is commonly used as a summary measure of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. It indicates the overall performance of a diagnostic test in terms of its accuracy at various diagnostic thresholds used to discriminate cases and non-cases of disease. The AUC measure is also used in meta-analyses, where each component study provides an estimate of the test sensitivity and specificity. These estimates are …