A novel method for interrogating receiver operating characteristic curves for assessing prognostic tests

Abstract Background Disease prevalence is rarely explicitly considered in the early stages of the development of novel prognostic tests. Rather, researchers use the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) as the key metric to gauge and report predictive performance ability. Because...

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Main Authors: Grégoire Thomas, Louise C. Kenny, Philip N. Baker, Robin Tuytten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:Diagnostic and Prognostic Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41512-017-0017-y