When is the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve an appropriate measure of classifier performance?

David J. Hand, Christoforos Anagnostopoulos. When is the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve an appropriate measure of classifier performance?. Pattern Recognition Letters, 34(5):492-495, 2013. [doi]

@article{HandA13,
  title = {When is the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve an appropriate measure of classifier performance?},
  author = {David J. Hand and Christoforos Anagnostopoulos},
  year = {2013},
  doi = {10.1016/j.patrec.2012.12.004},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2012.12.004},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/HandA13},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {Pattern Recognition Letters},
  volume = {34},
  number = {5},
  pages = {492-495},
}