Confidence intervals for the true classification error conditioned on the estimated error

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 579-589

  Xu, Qian ^a   Hua, Jianping ^b   Braga Neto, Ulisses ^c   Xiong, Zixiang ^a   Suh, Edward ^b   Dougherty, Edward R ^a,b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

And Confidence interval; Classification error; Estimated error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 33846116621     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460600500605     Document Type: Article

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