Using confidence intervals to compare several correlated areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves

• Published in: Statistics in medicine Vol. 32; no. 29; pp. 5077 - 5090
• Main Authors: Zou, G. Y., Yue, Li
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 20.12.2013; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: all pairwise comparisons; Area Under Curve; Child; comparisons with a standard; Computer Simulation; Confidence Intervals; Correlation analysis; diagnostic test; Diagnostic Tests, Routine - methods; Diagnostic Tests, Routine - standards; Female; Humans; hypothesis testing; Intestinal Obstruction - complications; Intestinal Obstruction - surgery; Measurement; Medical statistics; Myopia - etiology; nonparametric; Nutritional Status; Ovarian Neoplasms - complications; Ovarian Neoplasms - surgery; ROC Curve; Simulation; simultaneous confidence intervals; U-statistic; U-statistic; hypothesis testing; simultaneous confidence intervals; comparisons with a standard; all pairwise comparisons; diagnostic test; nonparametric

The performance of a diagnostic tool yielding quantitative or ordinal measurements is often assessed in terms of its area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). As new diagnostic tools are constantly being developed, a frequently occurring task is to compare multiple AUCs as derive...