The linear combinations of biomarkers which maximize the partial area under the ROC curves

Computational Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 647-666

  Hsu, Man Jen ^a   Hsueh, Huey Miin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Linear combination; Partial area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (pAUC); Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC); Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875411136     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-012-0321-5     Document Type: Article

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