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calculating area of ellipse

2 messages · S Ellison, Michael Dewey

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There are established formulae for ellipse area, but I am curious: in a 2-d ellipse with different quantities (eg coefficients for salary and age) represented by the different dimensions, what does 'area' mean?

S


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Dear Stephen

In that application the axes would be sensitivity and specificity (or 
their inverses) or some transformation of them like logits so the units 
would be the same. Whether the area has any scientific meaning I am not 
sure.

Michael
On 11/05/2021 15:20, Stephen Ellison wrote: