Confidence bands for ROC curves

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1894-1904

  Horváth, Lajos ^a   Horváth, Zsuzsanna ^a   Zhou, Wang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Confidence bands; Duchanne Muscular Dystrophy; Quantile and empirical processes; Smoothed bootstrap; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449100237     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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