Test of equivalence and non-inferiority for diagnostic accuracy based on the paired areas under ROC curves

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1219-1238

  Liu, Jen Pei ^a,b   Ma, Mi Chia ^c   Wu, Chin Yu ^c   Tai, Jia Yen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Non parametric method; Paired areas under ROC curves; Standardized difference; Two one sided tests

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POWER ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; PHARMACOKINETICS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCY;

EID: 33645469682     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2358     Document Type: Article

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