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A Marginal Model Approach For Analysis Of Multi-Reader Multi-Test Receiver Operating Characteristic (Roc) Data, Xiao Song, Xiao-Hua Zhou Sep 2004

A Marginal Model Approach For Analysis Of Multi-Reader Multi-Test Receiver Operating Characteristic (Roc) Data, Xiao Song, Xiao-Hua Zhou

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is a popular tool to characterize the capabilities of diagnostic tests with continuous or ordinal responses. One common design for assessing the accuracy of diagnostic tests is to have each patient examined by multiple readers with multiple tests; this design is most commonly used in a radiology setting, where the results of diagnostic tests depend on a radiologist's subjective interpretation. The most widely used approach for analyzing data from such a study is the Dorfman-Berbaum-Metz (DBM) method (Dorfman, Berbaum and Metz, 1992) which utilizes a standard analysis of variance (ANOVA) model for the jackknife …