C-statistics versus logistic regression for assessing the performance of qualitative diagnostic tests

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-76

  Romero, Cesar ^a   Te Velde, Leonard ^b   Ponsen, Huibert ^b   Cleophas, Ton J ^b,c  

^a Hospital San Carlos   (Mexico)

^b Department of Medicine   (Netherlands)

^c European College of Pharmaceutical Medicine   (France)

Author keywords

C statistics; Diagnostic tests; Logistic regression; ROC curves

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; C STATISTICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84857834825     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.726     Document Type: Article

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