A flexible method for estimating the ROC curve

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 773-784

  Ren, Haobo ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^b   Liang, Hua ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Kernel smoothing; Local polynomial; Penalized spline

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444223558     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0266476042000214493     Document Type: Article

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