Analyzing a Portion of the ROC Curve

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 190-195

  McClish, Donna Katzman ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

area under the curve; binormal data. (Med Decis Making 1989; 9:190 195); method of differentials; numerical integration; ROC curves

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; PROBABILITY; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMAN; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0024370623     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681x     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X8900900307     Document Type: Article

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