The optimal ratio of cases to controls for estimating the classification accuracy of a biomarker

Biostatistics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 456-468

  Janes, Holly ^a,b   Pepe, Margaret ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control design; Efficiency; Power; ROC curve; Sample size; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; HUMAN; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AREA UNDER CURVE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745468009     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxj018     Document Type: Article

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