Estimation of the area under the ROC curve

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 3093-3106

  Faraggi, David ^a   Reiser, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diagnostic markers; Kernel density estimation; Mann Whitney statistic; Power transformation

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; RANK SUM TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0037202102     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1228     Document Type: Article

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