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Table 3 Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and 95% confidence intervals for all the models applied on our Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL) dataset and on an external breast cancer dataset[8]

From: Development of multivariate NTCP models for radiation-induced hypothyroidism: a comparative analysis

  

AUC

95% CI

p value

HL dataset

 

Model 1

0.865

0.793–0.945

 

Model 2

0.874

0.750–0.951

0.760*

Boomsma model [7]

0.718

0.573–0.836

0.044*

0.023§

External dataset

 

Model 1

0.568

0.382–0.741

 

Model 2

0.914

0.760–0.984

0.005*

Boomsma model [7]

0.898

0.740–0.977

0.009*

0.264§

  1. Significance level was obtained using z test.
  2. * evaluated respect to model 1.
  3. § evaluated respect to model 2.