Empirical likelihood inference for the area under the ROC curve

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 613-622

  Qin, Gengsheng ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^b,c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

AUC; Bootstrap; Diagnostic test; Empirical likelihood; ROC

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

AREAS UNDER THE CURVES; BOOTSTRAP; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTINUOUS SCALE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD; EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; LIMITING DISTRIBUTIONS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CALCULATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMPRICAL LIKELIHOOD INFERENCE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MELANOMA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 33745286287     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00453.x     Document Type: Review

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