Maximum likelihood ratio tests for comparing the discriminatory ability of biomarkers subject to limit of detection

Biometrics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 895-903

  Vexler, Albert ^a,b   Liu, Aiyi ^a   Eliseeva, Ekaterina ^a,c   Schisterman, Enrique F ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under curve (AUC); Censoring; Hypothesis testing; Limit of detection (LOD); Maximum likelihood; Receiver operating characteristics (ROC)

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CENSORING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BIOMARKER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT ERROR; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 49749130404     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00941.x     Document Type: Article

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