Nonparametric cutoff point estimation for diagnostic decisions with weighted errors;Estimación no paramétrica del punto de corte asociado a una decisión diagnóstica con errores ponderados

Revista Colombiana de Estadistica

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-146

  Martínez Camblor, Pablo ^a,b  

^a CAIBER   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kernel density estimator; Sensitivity; Specificity; Threshold; Utility function

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961212570     PISSN: 01201751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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