Transformation-invariant and nonparametric monotone smooth estimation of ROC curves

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 349-359

  Du, Pang ^a   Tang, Liansheng ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence band; False positive fraction; Monotone spline

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS PROCESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 61749104496     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3465     Document Type: Article

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