A comparison of statistical methods for prenatal screening for down syndrome

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-101

  Williams, Christopher J ^a   Lee Stephen, Sauchi ^a   Fisher, Rachel A ^b   Dickerman, Lois H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

CART; Linear discriminant function; Logistic regression; Neural networks; Quadratic discriminant function; ROC curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 31744434860     PISSN: 15241904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1526-4025(199904/06)15:2<89::AID-ASMB366>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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