Estimation of ROC curves based on stably distributed biomarkers subject to measurement error and pooling mixtures

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 280-296

  Vexler, Albert ^a   Schisterman, Enrique F ^a,b   Liu, Aiyi ^a  

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

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Design of experiments; Fourier inversion; Infinitely divisible distribution; Measurement error; Pooling blood samples; Receiver operating characteristic curves; Stable distribution; Summand's distribution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RANDOMIZATION; ROC CURVE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ROC CURVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38849182242     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3035     Document Type: Article

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