A new parametric method based on S-distributions for computing receiver operating characteristic curves for continuous diagnosis tests

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1213-1235

  Sorribas, Albert ^a   March, Jaume ^a   Trujillano, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diagnostic test; Power law formalism; ROC curves; S distribution; S system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEALTH STATUS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PARAMETRIC TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

AREA UNDER CURVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0037093804     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1086     Document Type: Article

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