Assessing accuracy of a continuous screening test in the presence of verification bias

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 173-190

  Alonzo, Todd A ^a,c   Pepe, Margaret Sullivan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; Imputation; Inverse probability weighting; Mean score; Neonatal hearing screening; Receiver operating characteristic curve; Semiparametric estimators; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844275060     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00477.x     Document Type: Article

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