Multivariate mixtures of Polya trees for modeling ROC data

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-96

  Hanson, Timothy E ^a   Branscum, Adam J ^b   Gardner, Ian A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Diagnostic test evaluation; Empirical Bayes

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049106863     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0700800106     Document Type: Article

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