Evaluations and comparisons of treatment effects based on best combinations of biomarkers with applications to biomedical studies

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 709-721

  Vexler, Albert ^a   Chen, Xiwei ^a   Yu, Jihnhee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

area under the curve; best linear combination; likelihood ratio test; paired data; receiver operating characteristic; treatment effect

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHLORHEXIDINE; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE;

ALGORITHM; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL PLAQUE; EVALUATION STUDY; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHLORHEXIDINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL PLAQUE; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; ROC CURVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84907030825     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2014.0097     Document Type: Article

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