Threshold-Free Measures for Assessing the Performance of Medical Screening Tests

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yuan, Yan ^a   Su, Wanhua ^b   Zhu, Mu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

area under the ROC curve; average positive predictive value; biomarker; low prevalence rate; mammography

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045254050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00057     Document Type: Article

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