Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #466511 in Books
• Published on: 1989-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 521 pages

Customer Reviews

Receiver Operating Characteristics reference book
An excellent book on the theory of ROC. Its an early book on the subject but the coverage is quite broad and extensive. Its not the type of information to go out of date.

The book goes deeper into areas not normally covered in ROC explanations. For example it diagrams and explains how different gausian distributions affects the shape of the "ideal" ROC curve. It helped me understand why my real data created, semi-ugly, ROC curves I generated in Excel didn't quite look as good as all those nice and perfect textbook examples.

You'll like the theory it if you think like an engineer. Otherwise it could be considered fairly dry reading.

I would consider this book as an excellent reference book. Its early date gives it a nuts and bolts innocence. No new-age fluff or pyrotechnical fireworks of intellectual obsfucation. Good old fashioned information I can grasp.

You'll need to understand a bit of maths and statistics.

I would suggest that you use on-line tutorials on the subject first (Introduction and tutorial material) and then delve into the book. There are some excellent hands on, live, Java script ROC Graphs, on the net with which to learn from.

Search on the keywords Signal Detection Theory and ROC D'Prime.

Recommended but now probably hard to find.