Smoothed empirical likelihood for ROC curves with censored data

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 109, Issue , 2012, Pages 254-263

  Yang, Hanfang ^a   Zhao, Yichuan ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap confidence band; Right censoring data; ROC curves; Smoothed empirical likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859801530     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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