Youden index and associated cut-points for three ordinal diagnostic groups

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1213-1234

  Luo, Jingqin ^a   Xiong, Chengjie ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Diagnostic test; Kernel smoothing; Optimal cut point; Youden index

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH SELECTIONS; CUT-POINT; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; KERNEL SMOOTHING; YOUDEN INDEX;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84876147212     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2012.661906     Document Type: Article

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