FPR should really be "1-specificity" not "specificity" πŸ˜…

in think β€’Β  5 years agoΒ 

Bit of a long shot but is anyone familiar with ROC curves? I'm trying to calculate the area under the curve (AUC), which in theory should be simple enough as I have already calculated the sensitivity and specificity values for various cut-off points and I've even plotted a curve, but without statistical software I'm stumped. Apparently it takes only 2mins to calculate it using R or SPSS if you know how! I thought I nearly cracked it using a very basic version of Excel but it doesn't look right. I've been in the hospital library for nearly 8 hours and my brain is fried! πŸ˜­πŸ™

Below is my ROC curve and the data I based it on which I'm certain I've done correctly πŸ˜… and my attempt on Excel at calculating the AOC which is probably utter nonsense the highlighted parts are what I'm unsure about.

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Not that I think anyone will be reading this (I guess you never know, quite a few of you commented on my last stats SOS post!) but this is another table I did earlier which is more accurate in that it fits exactly with my ROC curve but FPR should really be "1-specificity" not "specificity" as I've done here in the table even though it confusingly seems to come out accurately as 1-specificity in the ROC curve.

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