The Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction

A comparison of Binary Tests and Regression Analysis and the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve shows that Binary Tests are more accurate than Ordinal Tests when the Receiver operating characteristic curve is considered.

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Measures of Accuracy for Binary Tests 3. Comparing Binary Tests and Regression Analysis 4. The Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve 5. Estimating the ROC Curve 6. Covariate Effects on Continuous and Ordinal Tests 7. Incomplete Data and Imperfect Reference Tests 8. Study Design and Hypothesis Testing 9. More Topics and Conclusions References/Bibliography Index