Estimating an ROC curve in the presence of non-ignorable verification bias

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 635-657

  Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a   Rodenberg, C A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

A non MAR model; Accuracy; EM algorithm; Missing data; ML estimates; Screening test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038044188     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832118     Document Type: Article

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