Identifying target populations for screening or not screening using logic regression

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1321-1338

  Janes, Holly ^a   Pepe, Margaret ^a,b   Kooperberg, Charles ^a,b   Newcomb, Polly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Logic regression; Prediction; ROC curve; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 17844386846     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2021     Document Type: Article

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