Does the net reclassification improvement help us evaluate models and markers?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 136-137

  Vickers, Andrew J ^a   Pepe, Margaret ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; NET RECLASSIFICATION IMPROVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUMOR BIOPSY;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84893314692     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M13-2841     Document Type: Editorial

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