Classification accuracy and cut pointselection

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 2676-2686

  Liu, Xinhua ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification accuracy; Concordance probability; Cut point; Sensitivitiy; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; TRACE METAL BLOOD LEVEL; YOUDEN INDEX;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ROC CURVE; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 84866463529     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4509     Document Type: Article

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