Statistical comparison of two ROC-curve estimates obtained from partially-paired datasets

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 110-121

  Metz, Charles E ^a   Herman, Benjamin A ^b   Roe, Cheryl A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; Missing data; Partially paired data; Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MODEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0031962305     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9801800118     Document Type: Article

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