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Threshold-Free Measures for Assessing the Performance of Medical Screening Tests
BACKGROUND: The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is frequently used as a performance measure for medical tests. It is a threshold-free measure that is independent of the disease prevalence rate. We evaluate the utility of the AUC against an alternate measure called the av...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403252/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25941668 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00057 |