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In 1637, René Descartes linked the featureless plane of Greek geometry to the symbols and formulas of Arabic algebra by imposing a coordinate system (conventionally, a horizontal x-axis and a vertical y-axis) on the geometric plane and using numbers to measure distances between points.
Based on the initial training set, the intensity at each of the consecutive 15,154 M/Z values was first compared using a two-sided Wilcoxon test (see methods) Figure 1shows the pattern of the resulting two-sided Wilcoxon test p-values generated on a training set consisting of 80 cancer patients and 45 controls randomly chosen from the larger data set, with the M/Z values on the x-axis and the negative logarithm (base 10) of the Wilcoxon test p-values on the y-axis.
The survival curve was atypical in that its y-axis presented a patient's chance of not developing a disease instead of the more standard "chance of survival".
The y-axis shows the true positive rate or sensitivity.
A parameter with no overlap between the two conditions will discriminate perfectly and has an ROC curve passing along the y-axis to the upper left corner (100% true positive rate and 0% false positive rate) to end again in the upper right corner with an area under the curve of 1.0.