Still haven't had a chance to read it, but ROC for binary classification 
anyway? Also, i.i.d. assumptions are typical for the learning algorithms as 
well.

Best,
Sebastian

> On Feb 7, 2019, at 10:15 AM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Just a skeptical comment from a bystander.
> 
> I only skimmed parts of the article. My impression is that this does not 
> apply (directly) to the regression setting.
> AFAIU, they assume that all observations have the same propability.
> 
> To me it looks more like the literature on testing of or confidence intervals 
> for a single proportion.
> 
> I might be wrong.
> 
> Josef
> 
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:00 AM Andreas Mueller <t3k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The paper definitely looks interesting and the authors are certainly 
> some giants in the field.
> But it is actually not widely cited (139 citations since 2005), and I've 
> never seen it used.
> 
> I don't know why that is, and looking at the citations there doesn't 
> seem to be a lot of follow-up work.
> I think this would need more validation before getting into sklearn.
> 
> Sebastian: This paper is distribution independent and doesn't need 
> bootstrapping, so it looks indeed quite nice.
> 
> 
> On 2/6/19 1:19 PM, Sebastian Raschka wrote:
> > Hi Stuart,
> >
> > I don't think so because there is no standard way to compute CI's. That 
> > goes for all performance measures (accuracy, precision, recall, etc.). Some 
> > people use simple binomial approximation intervals, some people prefer 
> > bootstrapping etc. And it also depends on the data you have. In large 
> > datasets, binomial approximation intervals may be sufficient and 
> > bootstrapping too expensive etc.
> >
> > Thanks for sharing that paper btw, will have a look.
> >
> > Best,
> > Sebastian
> >
> >
> >> On Feb 6, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Stuart Reynolds <stu...@stuartreynolds.net> 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2645-confidence-intervals-for-the-area-under-the-roc-curve.pdf
> >> Does scikit (or other Python libraries) provide functions to measure the 
> >> confidence interval of AUROC scores? Same question also for mean average 
> >> precision.
> >>
> >> It seems like this should be a standard results reporting practice if a 
> >> method is available.
> >>
> >> - Stuart
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