Evaluation of diagnostic scores with adjustment for covariates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1777-1790

  Berres, M ^a   Zehnder, A ^b   Blasi S ^b   Monsch, A U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KOBLENZ   (Germany)

^b Memory Clinic   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Back transformation; Cognitive tests; Cross validation; Diagnostics; Normative ranges scores

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 42449145252     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3120     Document Type: Article

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