Bayesian estimation of the receiver operating characteristic curve for a diagnostic test with a limit of detection in the absence of a gold standard

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 2090-2106

  Jafarzadeh, Seyed Reza ^a   Johnson, Wesley O ^b   Utts, Jessica M ^b   Gardner, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; No gold standard; Quantitative real time PCR; ROC curve; Truncation mixture model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GOLD STANDARD; PARATUBERCULOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BIOSTATISTICS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSTATISTICS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROC CURVE;

EID: 77956310615     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3975     Document Type: Article

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