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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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Autores principales: Yuan, Yan, Su, Wanhua, Zhu, Mu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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