Pooling biospecimens and limits of detection: Effects on ROC curve analysis

Biostatistics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 585-598

  Mumford, Sunni L ^a,b   Schisterman, Enrique F ^a   Vexler, Albert ^a   Liu, Aiyi ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Limit of detection; Maximum likelihood; Pooling design; Receiver operating characteristics; Sampling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33749595051     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxj027     Document Type: Article

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