Prediction-Based Structured Variable Selection through the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 896-905

  Wang, Yuanjia ^a   Chen, Huaihou ^a   Li, Runze ^b   Duan, Naihua ^c   Lewis Fernández, Roberto ^d  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; Disease screening; Hierarchical variable selection; ROC curve; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

AREAS UNDER THE CURVES; COMBINED TEST; DISEASE SCREENING; HIERARCHICAL VARIABLE SELECTION; HIERARCHICAL VARIABLES; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; ROC CURVES; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; VARIABLES SELECTIONS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOMETRY; DATA SET; DESIGN; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH CARE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 80052790888     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01533.x     Document Type: Article

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