Robust combination of multiple diagnostic tests for classifying censored event times

Biostatistics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 216-233

  Cai, T ^a   Cheng, S ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored surival time; Nonparametric transformation models; Resampling; Robust estimation; Time specific classification accuracy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; TUMOR GENE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 41149115055     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxm037     Document Type: Article

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