Evaluating the effect of optimized cutoff values in the assessment of prognostic factors

DOI10.1016/0167-9473(95)00016-XzbMath0875.62567MaRDI QIDQ672077

Martin Schumacher, Berthold Lausen

Publication date: 27 February 1997

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Censored dataAssessment of prognostic factorsMaximally selected test statisticsOptimization of cutoff values

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Uses Software

• AS 183

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