A step by step algorithm for combining diagnostic test using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve

• Autores: Ángel Borque Fernando, Luis Mariano Esteban Escaño, Gerardo Sanz Sáiz
• Localización: XXXI Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa ; V Jornadas de Estadística Pública: Murcia, 10-13 de febrero de 2009 : Libro de Actas, 2009, ISBN 978-84-691-8159-1
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The performing of several diagnostic tests on an individual provide multiple measures that can be combined in order to optimize diagnosis accuracy.

    Di erent approaches for choosing linear combinations of diagnostic tests that maximize the Area Under Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUC) have been proposed in the literature.

    A step by step algorithm for estimating the parameters of models is introduced. Moreover, extensive simulations in di erent settings have been considered in order to study the performance of the algorithm. The proposed approach is applied to a prostate cancer dataset.