Statistical Methods in Diagnostic Medicine
This book provides a comprehensive account of statistical methods for
design and analysis of diagnostic studies,
including sample size calculation,
estimation of the accuracy of a diagnostic test,
comparison of accuracies of
competing tests, and regression analysis of diagnostic accuracy data
and discussing
recently developed methods for correction of verification bias and
imperfect reference bias, methods for analysis of clustered data,
and meta-analysis methods. This book was published in 2002
by
Wiley & Sons and can also be purchased at
Amazon.com . This book has also been translated into Chinese by Prof. Yu and was published in 2005 by
People's Medical Publishing House
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In this document we have listed available software (both free and commercial ones) for ROC analysis as well as a general guideline
to help readers decide which program is most appropriate for ones' data.
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In this document we have listed available software (both free and commercial ones) for ROC analysis as well as a general guideline
to help readers decide which program is most appropriate for ones' data.
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BWC has proposed an important method for dealing
with multi-modality-reader ROC studies. In this document we are detailing some
of our concerns on the validity of this method.
We feel we lack a systematic exposition of what these methods do, what are
their underlying assumptions and statistical properties,
what types of experimental settings can they address and
what types of settings are not possible to handle with them.
We hope that by raising these concerns we can generate some future research
to examine these issues.