A unified approach to nonparametric comparison of receiver operating characteristic curves for longitudinal and clustered data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 482, 2008, Pages 705-713

  Li, Gang ^a   Zhou, Kefei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ELAN PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; Clustered data; Confidence band; Intersection union tests; Longitudinal data; Multiple comparison; Paired design; Partial area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; Quantile process

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549118215     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214508000000364     Document Type: Article

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