Rank methods for the analysis of clustered data in diagnostic trials

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 5041-5054

  Werner, Carola ^a   Brunner, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ANOVA type statistic; AUC; Multi modality design; Multi reader design; Multivariate nonparametric Behrens Fisher problem; ROC curve

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANOVA-TYPE STATISTIC; MULTI-MODALITY DESIGN; MULTI-READER DESIGN; MULTIVARIATE NONPARAMETRIC BEHRENS-FISHER PROBLEM; ROC CURVE;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 34247329468     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.05.023     Document Type: Article

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