Wilcoxon-based group sequential designs for comparison of areas under two correlated ROC curves

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-223

  Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a,b   Li, Sierra M ^a   Gatsonis, Constantine A ^c  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group sequential design; Non parametric; ROC curve areas

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GROUP SEQUENTIAL DESIGN; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RECORD; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANK SUM TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38849174743     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2856     Document Type: Article

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