Semiparametric inference for a quantile comparison function with applications to receiver operating characteristic curves

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 487-502

  Gang, L I ^a   Tiwari, Ram C ^b   Wells, Martin T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Censored data; Khmaladze transform; Kolmogorov type test; Martingale; Percentile percentile plot; Sensitivity; Specificity; Two sample problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043195397     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.3.487     Document Type: Article

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