rmachine-learning

How to make a multifactor model in R pROC?


I have a data table with a response 'y' and some predictors, 'X1' and 'X2' among them. I can create two one-factor models with pROC:

roc1 <- roc(data$y, data$X1)
roc2 <- roc(data$y, data$X2)

But I'm trying to calculate ROC AUC for two-factor model:

t1 = data$X1
t2 = data$X2
t12 = cbind(t1, t2)
roc12 <- roc(data$y, t12)

and get an error message:

Response and predictor must be vectors of the same length.

Is there a way to make multifactor models in pROC?


Solution

  • The functionality of the pROC::roc function is described in the manual at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pROC/pROC.pdf pages 69 to 75.

    The second argument to the function is called predictor and explaines as

    a numeric or ordered vector of the same length than response, containing the predicted value of each observation. If the first argument was a data.frame, predictor should be the name of the column in data containing the predictor, quoted for roc_, and optionally quoted for roc.data.frame (non-standard evaluation or NSE).

    A (numeric or ordered) vector cannot contain two columns. Therefore this is not part of what the function offers.