area under the curve

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AUC

NIST AI 100-2e2025

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A measure of the ability of a classifier to distinguish between classes in machine learning. A higher AUC means that a model performs better when distinguishing between the two classes. AUC measures the entire two-dimensional area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.
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NIST AI 100-2e2025

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