Selecting pre-screening items for early intervention trials of dementia - A case study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 271-283

  Li, Lang ^a   Huang, Jeffrey ^b   Sun, Sharon ^c   Shen, Jianzhao ^a   Unverzagt, Frederick W ^a   Gao, Sujuan ^a   Hendrie, Hugh H ^a   Hall, Kathleen ^a   Hui, Siu L ^a,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Decision tree; Discrimination; LASSO; Logistic regression; Neural network

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXPERT; PREDICTION; RECALL; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CLINICAL TRIALS; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; INDIANA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PREJUDICE;

EID: 0347093538     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1715     Document Type: Review

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