Research Article

Community-Acquired Pneumonia Requiring Hospitalization among French Guianese Children

Figure 7

ROC curve testing our multivariate model. The area under the ROC curve was close to 1, confirming the quality of the model. The ROC analysis is used here to quantify how accurately our medical diagnostic test (bacterial pneumonia  mg/L) can discriminate between poor and good outcomes in children hospitalized for CAP.