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Table 3 Real data experiments. CI stands for confidence interval and rf and lr stand for random forest and logistic regression, respectively

From: A novel estimator for the two-way partial AUC

UCI dataset

Diabetic Retinopathy

Sepsis Survival

total number of cases on test set

575

42,405

number of negative cases on test set

275

39,418

number of positive cases on test set

300

2,987

logistic regr. \(\widehat{tpAUC}_{lr}\) (original estimator)

0.216667

0.134550

logistic regr. \(\widehat{tpAUC}_{lr}\) (proposed estimator)

0.214788

0.123094

random forest \(\widehat{tpAUC}_{rf}\) (original estimator)

0.138909

0.124622

random forest \(\widehat{tpAUC}_{rf}\) (proposed estimator)

0.137091

0.121070

\(\widehat{\Delta tpAUC}\) (original estimator)

0.077758

0.009929

\(\widehat{\Delta tpAUC}\) (proposed estimator)

0.077697

0.002024

95% Confidence Interval (original estimator)

(0.076342, 0.079173)

(0.009889, 0.009968)

95% Confidence Interval (proposed estimator)

(0.076326, 0.079068)

(0.002019, 0.002029)

95% CI computation time (original estimator)

5.13 minutes

5.12 days

95% CI computation time (proposed estimator)

3.24 seconds

46.69 seconds