Statistical evaluation of medical tests

V Inácio, MX Rodríguez-Álvarez… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we present an overview of the main aspects related to the statistical
evaluation of medical tests for diagnosis and prognosis. Measures of diagnostic …

Modeling susceptibility to forest fires in the Central Corridor of the Atlantic Forest using the frequency ratio method

RO de Santana, RC Delgado, A Schiavetti - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fire is one of the main disturbances of tropical forests. Understanding the spatial and
temporal dynamics of forest fires is of fundamental importance for the conservation of …

Characterizing and predicting post-acute sequelae of SARS CoV-2 infection (PASC) in a large academic medical center in the US

LG Fritsche, W Jin, AJ Admon, B Mukherjee - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: A growing number of Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) survivors are
affected by post-acute sequelae of SARS CoV-2 infection (PACS). Using electronic health …

[图书][B] ROC analysis for classification and prediction in practice

CT Nakas, LE Bantis, CA Gatsonis - 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This book presents a unified and up-to-date introduction to ROC methodologies, covering
both diagnosis (classification) and prediction. The emphasis is on the conceptual …

[HTML][HTML] Covariate-specific ROC curve analysis can accommodate differences between covariate subgroups in the evaluation of diagnostic accuracy

J Lee, N van Es, T Takada, FA Klok, GJ Geersing… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives We present an illustrative application of methods that account for covariates in
receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, using individual patient data on D …

Utility of acute and subacute blood biomarkers to assist diagnosis in CT-negative isolated mild traumatic brain injury

J Reyes, G Spitz, BP Major, WT O'Brien, LP Giesler… - Neurology, 2023 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives Blood biomarkers glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and
ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) have recently been Food and Drug …

The covariate-adjusted ROC curve: the concept and its importance, review of inferential methods, and a new Bayesian estimator

V Inácio, MX Rodríguez-Álvarez - Statistical Science, 2022 - projecteuclid.org
In the supplement we:(i) discuss further practical considerations and provide examples
about the need of adjusting for covariates,(ii) describe the details of the bootstrap scheme …

Comparison of turbidometric immunoassay, refractometry, and gamma‐glutamyl transferase to radial immunodiffusion for assessment of transfer of passive immunity …

AJ Kreuder, RM Breuer, C Wiley… - Journal of Veterinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Attainment of adequate transfer of passive immunity (TPI) is critical to health of
calves; however, studies comparing available tools for measurement of TPI in individual …

Combining HbA1c and glycated albumin improves detection of dysglycaemia in mixed-ancestry South Africans

AP Kengne, TE Matsha, DB Sacks, AE Zemlin… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Combining HbA 1c with glycated albumin (GA) may improve
detection of dysglycaemia. As BMI correlates positively with HbA 1c and negatively with GA …

A new ensemble model for phishing detection based on hybrid cumulative feature selection

MSM Prince, A Hasan, FM Shah - 2021 IEEE 11th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A New Ensemble Model for Phishing Detection Based on Hybrid Cumulative Feature
Selection (PDCFS) proposes a model that partitions the main dataset into n partitions based …