Estimation methods for time-dependent AUC models with survival data

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-26

  Hung, Hung ^a   Chiang, Chin Tsang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Areaundercurve(auc); Generalized estimating equations; Kaplan meier estimator; Limiting gaussian process; Nonparametric estimator; Receiver operating characteristic (roc); Survival data; U statistic; Uniformly consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949876549     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: 1708945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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