Bayesian bootstrap estimation of ROC curve

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 5407-5420

  Gu, Jiezhun ^a   Ghosal, Subhashis ^b   Roy, Anindya ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under the curve (AUC); Bayesian bootstrap; Integrated absolute error; ROC curve; Testing binormality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; ROC CURVE; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 59449094529     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3366     Document Type: Article

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