Evaluation of confounding effects in ROC studies

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 998-1007

  Le, Chap T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concomitant information; Diagnostic test; Proportional Hazards model; Regression analysis; ROC function; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HAZARDS;

CHARACTERISTICS FUNCTIONS; CHARACTERISTICS STUDIES; CLINICAL STUDY; CONCOMITANT INFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODELS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SENSITIVITY; SPECIFICITY;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACID PHOSPHATASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0030766997     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533559     Document Type: Article

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