Nonparametric analysis of clustered ROC curve data

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 567-578

  Obuchowski, Nancy A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective sample size; Intracluster correlations; Mann Whitney test; ROC curve

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DIAGNOSIS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

'CURRENT; ACCURACY OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; CLUSTERED DATUM; EFFECTIVE SAMPLE SIZE; INTRACLUSTER CORRELATIONS; MANN-WHITNEY; MANN-WHITNEY TEST; NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SAMPLE SIZES;

BIOMETRICS;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030966854     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533958     Document Type: Article

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