Evaluating a continuous biomarker for infection by using observed disease status with covariate effects on disease

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 705-717

  Jones, Geoffrey ^a   Johnson, Wesley O ^b   Vink, W Daan ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Diagnostic test; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Receiver operating characteristic analysis; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350179985     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2009.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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