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How to draw multiple roc curves with confidence interval in pROC?


This code can draw a roc curve with confidence interval:

ciobj <- ci.se(obj, specificities=seq(0, 1, l=25))
dat.ci <- data.frame(x = as.numeric(rownames(ciobj)),
                     lower = ciobj[, 1],
                     upper = ciobj[, 3])

ggroc(obj) + theme_minimal() + geom_abline(slope=1, intercept = 1, linetype = "dashed", alpha=0.7, color = "grey") + coord_equal() + 
  geom_ribbon(data = dat.ci, aes(x = x, ymin = lower, ymax = upper), fill = "steelblue", alpha= 0.2) + ggtitle(capture.output(obj$ci))

and this code can draw multiple roc curves together

roc.list <- roc(outcome ~ s100b + ndka + wfns, data = aSAH)
g.list <- ggroc(roc.list)
g.list

but I cant combined them together:

ggroc(roc.list) + theme_minimal() + geom_abline(slope=1, intercept = 1, linetype = "dashed", alpha=0.7, color = "grey") + coord_equal() + 
  geom_ribbon(data = dat.ci, aes(x = x, ymin = lower, ymax = upper), fill = "steelblue", alpha= 0.2) + ggtitle(capture.output(obj$ci))

it will return an error:


Solution

  • There might be a more elegant way to do that, but here is what works for me anyway:

    library(pROC)
    roc.list <- roc(outcome ~ s100b + ndka + wfns, data = aSAH)
    
    
    ci.list <- lapply(roc.list, ci.se, specificities = seq(0, 1, l = 25))
    
    dat.ci.list <- lapply(ci.list, function(ciobj) 
      data.frame(x = as.numeric(rownames(ciobj)),
                 lower = ciobj[, 1],
                 upper = ciobj[, 3]))
    
    p <- ggroc(roc.list) + theme_minimal() + geom_abline(slope=1, intercept = 1, linetype = "dashed", alpha=0.7, color = "grey") + coord_equal()
    
    for(i in 1:3) {
      p <- p + geom_ribbon(
        data = dat.ci.list[[i]],
        aes(x = x, ymin = lower, ymax = upper),
        fill = i + 1,
        alpha = 0.2,
        inherit.aes = F) 
      } 
    
    p
    

    I had to remove the title, and add the argument inherit.aes = F.

    And the result below :

    Resulting ROC curves