Evaluation of diagnostic accuracy in detecting ordered symptom statuses without a gold standard

Biostatistics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 567-581

  Wang, Zheyu ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^b   Wang, Miqu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Diagnostic accuracy; EM algorithm; MSE; Ordinal tests; Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM); Volume under the ROC surface (VUS)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PHYSICIANS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 79959483591     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxq075     Document Type: Article

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