Beschreibung:
This book describes statistical techniques for the design and evaluation of research studies on medical diagnostic tests, screening tests, biomarkers and new technologies for classification and prediction in medicine.
1 Introduction; 2 Measures of Accuracy for Binary Tests; 3 Comparing Binary Tests and Regression Analysis; 4 The Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve; 5 Estimating the ROC Curve; 6 Covariate Effects on Continuous and Ordinal Tests; 7 Incomplete Data and Imperfect Reference Tests; 8 Study Design and Hypothesis Testing; 9 More Topics and Conclusions; References/Bibliography; Index