Evaluating Prognostic Accuracy of Biomarkers under Competing Risk

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 388-396

  Zheng, Yingye ^a   Cai, Tianxi ^b   Jin, Yuying ^c   Feng, Ziding ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker evaluation; Cause specific hazard; Competing risk; Negative predictive value; Positive predictive value; Receiver operating characteristics curve (ROC curve); Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CURVE FITTING; DISEASES; HAZARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SAMPLING;

BIOMARKER EVALUATION; CAUSE-SPECIFIC HAZARD; COMPETING RISKS; COVARIATES; INTERVENTION STRATEGY; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMARKERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOMARKER; CANCER; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84862844387     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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