A Model for Adjusting for Nonignorable Verification Bias in Estimation of the ROC Curve and Its Area with Likelihood-Based Approach

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1119-1128

  Liu, Danping ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Nonignorable missing data; ROC curve; Verification bias

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS;

ALZHEIMERS DISEASE; AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; AREA-BASED; DISEASE MODELS; EMPIRICAL ESTIMATE; MISSING DATA; NONIGNORABLE MISSING DATA; ROC CURVES; SELECTION MODEL; VERIFICATION BIAS;

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SENSORY SYSTEM DISORDER;

EID: 78650071630     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01397.x     Document Type: Article

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