Jul 19, 2017 · A discretization method based on maximizing the area under receiver operating characteristic curve Original by M. Kurtcephe, H. A. Güvenir, Bilkent University, 2013, 25 pages This summary note was Posted on February 12, 2017 July 19, 2017 By reinie Mar 22, 2014 · I am trying to find the area under the curve (AUC) for a part of a graph. I use "trapz" function, but this function calculates the AUC for a entire area below the selected part of the graph. Any hint how I can calculate only part of it (not entire part until x-axis)? Please see figure. Interested are to be calculate is in red. An incredibly useful tool in evaluating and comparing predictive models is the ROC curve. Its name is indeed strange. ROC stands for receiver operating characteristic. Its origin is from sonar back in the 1940s; ROCs were used to measure how well a sonar signal (e.g., from a submarine) could be detected from noise (a school of fish). In its current usage, ROC curves are a nice way to see how ...