Nonparametric ROC and LROC analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1556-1564

  Popescu, Lucretiu M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

LROC; Nonparametric; ROC

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; LOCALIZATION ROCS; LROC; NON-PARAMETRIC; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; SIMULATION STUDIES; THEORETICAL DERIVATIONS; VARIANCE CALCULATIONS;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION;

EID: 34247551354     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2717407     Document Type: Article

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