Nonparametric estimation of the threshold at an operating point on the ROC curve

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4370-4383

  Yousef, Waleed A ^a   Kundu, Subrata ^b   Wagner, Robert F ^c  

^a HCI LAB   (Egypt)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; BINARY CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION RULES; CRITICAL VALUE; DECISION VARIABLES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; FALSE NEGATIVES; FALSE POSITIVE; FINITE SAMPLES; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; OPERATING POINTS; QUANTILE ESTIMATION; REAL WORLD DATA; RECEIVER OPERATING CURVES; ROC CURVES; SIMULATED DATA; SPECIFIC OPERATING POINT; TEST RESULTS; THRESHOLD ESTIMATION;

DIAGNOSIS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERRORS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 69449090442     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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