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Correcting for confounding in analyzing receiver operating characteristic curves. (English) Zbl 0878.62089

Summary: A method is described for modeling a receiver operating curve as a function of confounding covariates when the outcome of the screening test is a continuous variate. A parametric survival model is proposed for modeling the distribution of the screening test outcome as a function of true disease status and other confounding covariates. The sensitivity and specificity of the screening test at any “cut-point” along the range of the screening test outcome may be estimated easily from the estimated survival distribution. Confidence intervals and an estimate of the area under the curve are derived.

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62P10 Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis
62F25 Parametric tolerance and confidence regions
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