Assessment of diagnostic markers by goodness-of-fit tests

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2503-2513

  Nakas, Christos ^a   Yiannoutsos, Constantin T ^b   Bosch, Ronald J ^c   Moyssiadis, Chronis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; Goodness of fit; Receiver operating characteristics; ROC

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ROC CURVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041633635     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1464     Document Type: Article

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