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The Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction.

Publication: Journal of the American Statistical Association
Publication Date: 01-JUN-05 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: The Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction.(Book Review)

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The Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction.

Margaret Sullivan PEPE. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0-19-850984-7. xvi + 302 pp. $115.00 (H). Paperback: ISBN: 0-19-856582-8. $69.50.

In medical studies, different medical tests or diagnostic procedures need to be evaluated and compared to find one that is efficient. This important practical problem relates directly to our daily lives and has recently attracted the attention of many statisticians. For this reason, statistical analysis and inference for diagnostic data are currently under rapid development.

For those who want to learn systematically about existing statistical methods to handle diagnostic data, this is a timely book that appears to cover a gap in...

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