Accommodating Covariates in Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis [PDF]
The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, 2009 Classification accuracy is the ability of a marker or diagnostic test to discriminate between two groups of individuals, cases and controls, and is commonly summarized by using the receiver operating characteristic (roc) curve. In studies of classification accuracy, there are often covariates that should be incorporated into the ROC analysis.
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Serum HSF1 is upregulated in endometriosis patients and serves as a potential diagnostic biomarker
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Endometriosis (EMS) is a prevalent gynecological condition lacking reliable diagnostic biomarkers. This prospective study aimed to analyze the potential of serum heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) as a diagnostic marker for EMS.
Hui‐Ying Pan, Jing Wan
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STEMedicine, 2023 Aims: As a serious liver abnormality, intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) uniquely occurs in pregnant women. In the present study, we examined whether placental exosomes and their protein contents could serve as novel indicators to help early ...
Sahaya Ravichandran, Rupa Karunanithi
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Use of the combination of the preoperative platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio and tumor characteristics to predict peritoneal metastasis in patients with gastric cancer. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The aims of the present study were to evaluate the predictive value of the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio for peritoneal metastasis in patients with gastric cancer and to construct an available preoperative prediction system for peritoneal metastasis.
Xiao-Dong Chen +11 more
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Modernising Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves
Algorithms, 2023 The justification for making a measurement can be sought in asking what decisions are based on measurement, such as in assessing the compliance of a quality characteristic of an entity in relation to a specification limit, SL. The relative performance of
Leslie R. Pendrill +3 more
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Testing validity of FitnessGram in two samples of US adolescents (12–15 years)
Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness, 2020 Background/Objective: This study examined the validity of the FitnessGram® criterion-reference cut-points for cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) based on two samples of US adolescents (aged 12–15 years).
Eun-Young Lee +5 more
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Efficacy of Salivary Creatinine and Urea and their Association with Serum Creatinine and Urea Levels in Severe Chronic Kidney Disease Patients [PDF]
Indian Journal of Medical Biochemistry, 2023 An increase in the incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is seen worldwide due to increased burden of noncommunicable diseases and ageing. There is accumulation of several waste products in these patients due to kidney impairment, leading to various ...
Meghana Khandu Padwal +3 more
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pROC: an open-source package for R and S+ to analyze and compare ROC curves [PDF]
, 2011 Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are useful tools to evaluate classifiers in biomedical and bioinformatics applications. However, conclusions are often reached through inconsistent use or insufficient statistical analysis.
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Clinical Values of the Identified Hub Genes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 ObjectiveThis study was conducted to identify the biomarkers and mechanisms associated with systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE) at a transcriptome level.MethodsMicroarray datasets were downloaded, and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified ...
Lu Xiao, Feng Zhan, Shudian Lin
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Coherence of clinical symptoms at antemortem inspection and pathological lesions at postmortem inspection in slaughter pigs [PDF]
Kafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi, 2020 The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between clinical symptoms recorded during the antemortem inspection in the lairage and pathological lesions at postmortem inspection of slaughter pigs.
Nikola ČOBANOVIĆ +6 more
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