Modelling stochastic order in the analysis of receiver operating characteristic data: Bayesian non-parametric approaches

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 207-225

  Hanson, Timothy E ^a,d   Kottas, Athanasios ^b   Branscum, Adam J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; Dirichlet process mixtures; Johne's disease; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Mixtures of Polya trees; Serologic data

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449135011     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2007.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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