Small improvement in the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve indicated small changes in predicted risks

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 79, Issue , 2016, Pages 159-164

  Martens, Forike K ^a   Tonk, Elisa C M ^a   Kers, Jannigje G ^a   Janssens, A Cecile J W ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under curve; Discrimination; Prediction; Risk assessment; Risk factors; Risk models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EFFECT SIZE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AREA UNDER CURVE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84995527318     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.07.002     Document Type: Article

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