The effectiveness of risk scores: The logit rank plot

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 165-183

  Copas, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Receiver operating characteristic; Recidivism; Risk scores; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033473285     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00147     Document Type: Article

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