DiagTest3Grp: An R package for analyzing diagnostic tests with three ordinal groups

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Luo, Jingqin ^a   Xiong, Chengjie ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic test; DiagTest3Grp; R; Three ordinal groups; Volume under the ROC surface; Youden index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868121899     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v051.i03     Document Type: Article

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