The use of ROC for defining the validity of the prognostic index in censored data

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 783-791

  Wolf, Petra ^a   Schmidt, Georg ^b   Ulm, Kurt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Nelson Aalen estimator; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955158012     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2011.02.021     Document Type: Article

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