Asymptotic properties of the sequential empirical ROC, PPV and NPV curves under case-control sampling

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3234-3261

  Koopmeiners, Joseph S ^a   Feng, Ziding ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic testing; Empirical process theory; Group sequential methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873991286     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOS937     Document Type: Article

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