New improved gamma: Enhancing the accuracy of Goodman-Kruskal's gamma using ROC curves.

ABSTRACT: For decades, researchers have debated the relative merits of different measures of people's ability to discriminate the correctness of their own responses (resolution). The probabilistic approach, primarily led by Nelson, has advocated the Goodman-Kruskal gamma coefficient, an ordinal measure of association. The signal detection approach has advocated parametric measures of distance between the evidence distributions or the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Here we provide mathematical proof that the indices associated with the two approaches are far more similar than has previously been thought: The true value of gamma is equal to twice the true area under the ROC curve minus one. Using this insight, we report 36 simulations involving 3,600,000 virtual particip

SUBMITTER: Higham PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6420444 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature