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Rating Models and Validation - Oesterreichische Nationalbank

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Chart 54: Depiction of a <strong>and</strong> b errors with Cutoff between <strong>Rating</strong> Classes 6 <strong>and</strong> 7<br />

ROC Curve<br />

One common way of depicting the discriminatory power of rating procedures is<br />

the ROC Curve, 80 which is constructed by plotting the cumulative frequencies<br />

of bad cases as points on the y axis <strong>and</strong> the cumulative frequencies of good cases<br />

along the x axis. Each section of the ROC curve corresponds to a rating class,<br />

beginning at the left with the worst class.<br />

80 Receiver Operating Characteristic.<br />

Chart 55: Shape of the ROC Curve for the Data Example<br />

<strong>Rating</strong> <strong>Models</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Validation</strong><br />

Guidelines on Credit Risk Management 103

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