A proposed design and analysis for comparing digital and analog mammography: Special receiver operating characteristic methods for cancer screening

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 454, 2001, Pages 421-428

  Baker, Stuart G ^a   Pinsky, Paul F ^b  

^a Biometry Research Group   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Diagnostic testing; Double sampling; Permutation test; Sample size; Sensitivity; Specificity; Verification bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542678937     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501753168136     Document Type: Article

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