Biomarker evaluation and comparison using the controls as a reference population

Biostatistics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 228-244

  Huang, Ying ^a   Pepe, Margaret Sullivan ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Classification; Covariate adjustment; Percentile value; ROC; Standardization

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; REFERENCE VALUE; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE VALUES; ROC CURVE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 61449236401     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxn029     Document Type: Article

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