Adjusting for non-ignorable verification bias in clinical studies for Alzheimer's disease

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 221-230

  Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a,b   Castelluccio, Pete ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Non ignorability; Profile likelihood; ROC curves; Verification bias

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0347724080     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1711     Document Type: Article

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