Unified Least Squares Methods for the Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests With the Gold Standard
The article proposes a unified least squares method to estimate the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) parameters for continuous and ordinal diagnostic tests, such as cancer biomarkers. The method is based on a linear model framework using the empirically estimated sensitivities and specificiti...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2017-02-01
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Series: | Cancer Informatics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1176935116686063 |