Nonparametric ROC Summary Statistics for Correlated Diagnostic Marker Data
Applications
2012-06-11 v1 Methodology
Abstract
We propose efficient nonparametric statistics to compare medical imaging modalities in multi-reader multi-test data and to compare markers in longitudinal ROC data. The proposed methods are based on the weighted area under the ROC curve which includes the area under the curve and the partial area under the curve as special cases. The methods maximize the local power for detecting the difference between imaging modalities. The asymptotic results of the proposed methods are developed under a complex correlation structure. Our simulation studies show that the proposed statistics result in much better powers than existing statistics. We applied the proposed statistics to an endometriosis diagnosis study.
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@article{arxiv.1206.1818,
title = {Nonparametric ROC Summary Statistics for Correlated Diagnostic Marker Data},
author = {Liansheng Larry Tang and Aiyi Liu and Zhen Chen and Enrique F. Schisterman and Bo Zhang and Zhuang Miao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.1818},
year = {2012}
}
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13 pages, 4 tables