Constructing "proper" ROCs from ordinal response data using weighted power functions

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 523-535

  Mossman, Douglas ^a   Peng, Hongying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

proper ROC; receiver operating characteristic; ROC analysis; weighted power function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84899570617     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X13503046     Document Type: Article

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