Building multi-marker algorithms for disease prediction-The role of correlations among markers

Biomarker Insights

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 83-93

  Pinsky, Paul F ^a   Zhu, Claire S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Correlation; Linear algorithm; Multivariate normal distribution; ROC AUC

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DOWN REGULATION; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OVARY CANCER; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; UPREGULATION;

EID: 80053609736     PISSN: 11772719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/BMI.S7513     Document Type: Article

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