I would suggest the following references:
J R Beck and E Shultz "Arch Pathol Lab Med, Vol 110, 13-20, 1986"
M Zweig and G Campbell "Clin Chem, Vol 39,561-577, 1993"
Also the book:Galen and Gambino, "Beyond Normality: the predictive value
and efficiency of medical diagnoses" John Wiley NY 1975.
Ian
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:58:44 -0000, Natalia Botchkina
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>Hi,
>
>I have been doing some simple analysis which involves sensitivity,
>specificity and ROC curves. I got some simple properties from applied (i.e.
>medical etc) point of view but I would like to have a deeper understanding
>of the statistics/probability behind it. If you come across any literature
>on the subject it would be very welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Natalia.
>
>Natalia Botchkina, PhD
>Statistician
>Oxford GlycoSciences
>
>Email: [log in to unmask]
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