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Overview Of Inference About Roc Curve In Medical Diagnosis, Jingjing Yin Dec 2014

Overview Of Inference About Roc Curve In Medical Diagnosis, Jingjing Yin

Biostatistics Faculty Publications

Medical diagnosis aims to identify diseased individuals through the evaluation of the measurements of some biomarkers by performing a diagnostic test based on some biomarker measurements. Biomarkers are measured on either discrete or continuous scale and continuous biomarkers are utilized more often in medical practice. This article introduces the most popular tool for evaluating continuous biomarkers: the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve.

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