Use of likelihood ratios for comparisons of binary diagnostic tests: Underlying ROC curves

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5821-5830

  Bandos, Andriy I ^a   Rockette, Howard E ^a   Gur, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

area under concave ROC curve; binary diagnostic tests; diagnostic likelihood ratios

Indexed keywords

AREAS UNDER THE CURVES; DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS CURVES (ROC); ROC CURVES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGEBRA;

EID: 78149442626     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3503849     Document Type: Article

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