The area under an ROC curve with limited information

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 160-166

  Van den Hout, Wilbert B ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; Concavity; Monotonicity; ROC curve analysis

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; INFORMATION; ROC CURVE;

AREA UNDER CURVE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037351504     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X03251246     Document Type: Article

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