roc_aunu() is a multiclass metric that computes the area under the ROC curve of each class against the rest, using the uniform class distribution. This is equivalent to roc_auc(estimator = "macro").

## Usage

roc_aunu(data, ...)

# S3 method for data.frame
roc_aunu(data, truth, ..., na_rm = TRUE, case_weights = NULL, options = list())

roc_aunu_vec(
truth,
estimate,
na_rm = TRUE,
case_weights = NULL,
options = list(),
...
)

## Arguments

data

A data.frame containing the columns specified by truth and ....

...

A set of unquoted column names or one or more dplyr selector functions to choose which variables contain the class probabilities. There should be as many columns as factor levels of truth.

truth

The column identifier for the true class results (that is a factor). This should be an unquoted column name although this argument is passed by expression and supports quasiquotation (you can unquote column names). For _vec() functions, a factor vector.

na_rm

A logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

case_weights

The optional column identifier for case weights. This should be an unquoted column name that evaluates to a numeric column in data. For _vec() functions, a numeric vector.

options

[deprecated]

No longer supported as of yardstick 1.0.0. If you pass something here it will be ignored with a warning.

Previously, these were options passed on to pROC::roc(). If you need support for this, use the pROC package directly.

estimate

A matrix with as many columns as factor levels of truth. It is assumed that these are in the same order as the levels of truth.

## Value

A tibble with columns .metric, .estimator, and .estimate and 1 row of values.

For grouped data frames, the number of rows returned will be the same as the number of groups.

For roc_aunu_vec(), a single numeric value (or NA).

## Relevant Level

There is no common convention on which factor level should automatically be considered the "event" or "positive" result when computing binary classification metrics. In yardstick, the default is to use the first level. To alter this, change the argument event_level to "second" to consider the last level of the factor the level of interest. For multiclass extensions involving one-vs-all comparisons (such as macro averaging), this option is ignored and the "one" level is always the relevant result.

## Multiclass

This multiclass method for computing the area under the ROC curve uses the uniform class distribution and is equivalent to roc_auc(estimator = "macro").

## References

Ferri, C., Hernández-Orallo, J., & Modroiu, R. (2009). "An experimental comparison of performance measures for classification". Pattern Recognition Letters. 30 (1), pp 27-38.

roc_aunp() for computing the area under the ROC curve of each class against the rest, using the a priori class distribution.

Other class probability metrics: average_precision(), classification_cost(), gain_capture(), mn_log_loss(), pr_auc(), roc_auc(), roc_aunp()

Julia Silge

## Examples

# Multiclass example

# obs is a 4 level factor. The first level is "VF", which is the
# "event of interest" by default in yardstick. See the Relevant Level
# section above.
data(hpc_cv)

# You can use the col1:colN tidyselect syntax
library(dplyr)
hpc_cv %>%
filter(Resample == "Fold01") %>%
roc_aunu(obs, VF:L)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 3
#>   .metric  .estimator .estimate
#>   <chr>    <chr>          <dbl>
#> 1 roc_aunu macro          0.871

# Change the first level of obs from "VF" to "M" to alter the
# event of interest. The class probability columns should be supplied
# in the same order as the levels.
hpc_cv %>%
filter(Resample == "Fold01") %>%
mutate(obs = relevel(obs, "M")) %>%
roc_aunu(obs, M, VF:L)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 3
#>   .metric  .estimator .estimate
#>   <chr>    <chr>          <dbl>
#> 1 roc_aunu macro          0.871

# Groups are respected
hpc_cv %>%
group_by(Resample) %>%
roc_aunu(obs, VF:L)
#> # A tibble: 10 × 4
#>    Resample .metric  .estimator .estimate
#>    <chr>    <chr>    <chr>          <dbl>
#>  1 Fold01   roc_aunu macro          0.871
#>  2 Fold02   roc_aunu macro          0.863
#>  3 Fold03   roc_aunu macro          0.898
#>  4 Fold04   roc_aunu macro          0.874
#>  5 Fold05   roc_aunu macro          0.865
#>  6 Fold06   roc_aunu macro          0.877
#>  7 Fold07   roc_aunu macro          0.865
#>  8 Fold08   roc_aunu macro          0.873
#>  9 Fold09   roc_aunu macro          0.855
#> 10 Fold10   roc_aunu macro          0.865

# Vector version
# Supply a matrix of class probabilities
fold1 <- hpc_cv %>%
filter(Resample == "Fold01")

roc_aunu_vec(
truth = fold1$obs, matrix( c(fold1$VF, fold1$F, fold1$M, fold1\$L),
ncol = 4
)
)
#> [1] 0.8714461