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SUBMITTER: Kang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4351049 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kang Le L Xiong Chengjie C Crane Paul P Tian Lili L
Statistics in medicine 20120803 4
Many researchers have addressed the problem of finding the optimal linear combination of biomarkers to maximize the area under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for scenarios with binary disease status. In practice, many disease processes such as Alzheimer can be naturally classified into three diagnostic categories such as normal, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease (AD), and for such diseases the volume under the ROC surface (VUS) is the most commonly used index of d ...[more]