Bayesian ROC curve estimation under binormality using a rank likelihood

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2076-2083

  Gu, Jiezhun ^a   Ghosal, Subhashis ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binormal model; MCMC; Posterior consistency; Rank based likelihood; ROC curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949103469     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.09.014     Document Type: Article

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