A Generalization of AUC to an Ordered Multi-Class Diagnosis and Application to Longitudinal Data Analysis on Intellectual Outcome in Pediatric Brain-Tumor Patients

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves have been widely used in evaluation of the goodness of the diagnostic method in many study fields, such as disease diagnosis in medicine. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) naturally became one of the most used variables in gauging the goodness of the d...

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Main Author: Li, Yi
Format: Others
Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2009
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Online Access:http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_diss/1
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=math_diss