A modified Wald interval for the area under the ROC curve (AUC) in diagnostic case-control studies

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kottas, Martina ^a   Kuss, Oliver ^b   Zapf, Antonia ^a,c  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

AUC; Biomarker study; Diagnostic study; Wald interval

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84897648029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-14-26     Document Type: Article

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