On Dec 19, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Ivana Cace wrote: > Packages pROC and ROCR both calculate/approximate the Area Under (Receiver > Operator) Curve. However the results are different. > > I am computing a new variable as a predictor for a label. The new variable is > a (non-linear) function of a set of input values, and I'm checking how > different parameter settings contribute to prediction. All my settings are > predictive, but some are better. > > The AUC i got with pROC was much lower then expected, so i tried ROCR. Here > are some comparisons: > AUC from pROC AUC from ROCR > 0.49465 0.79311 > 0.49465 0.79349 > 0.49701 0.79446 > 0.49701 0.79764 > > When i draw the ROC (with pROC) i get the curve i expect. But why is the AUC > according to pROC so different?
Why are you sending this to the Rhelp mailing list? You should instead be reporting it to the package maintainers. > maintainer('ROCR') [1] "Tobias Sing <tobias.s...@mpi-sb.mpg.de>" > maintainer('pROC') [1] "Xavier Robin <xavier.ro...@unige.ch>" -- David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.