Estimation of the disease-specific diagnostic marker distribution under verification bias

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 707-717

  Page, John H ^a   Rotnitzky, Andrea ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; COVARIATES; DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS; GOLD STANDARDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS; MODEL PARAMETERS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES; PARAMETRIC MODELS; ROBUST ESTIMATORS; VERIFICATION BIASES;

MODAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 56349167899     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.06.021     Document Type: Article

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