Are Risk Stratification Tables the Best Way to Evaluate Model Performance?
TO THE EDITOR:
Janes and colleagues (1) advocate using risk stratification tables, not the area under the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve or c-statistic, and valuing models that assign a wide range of risks to individuals who were assigned a narrow range of risks by another model. A recent review of this topic (2) reached different conclusions.
Simply providing a risk distribution curve (frequency vs. risk in the population) is a more informative way to present the …
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