Selected statistical literature

Recommended literature on ROC curves

• Gardner IA, Greiner M (2006) Receiver-operating characteristic curves and likelihood ratios: improvements over traditional methods for the evaluation and application of veterinary clinical pathology tests. Veterinary Clinical Pathology, 35:8-17. [Abstract]
• Griner PF, Mayewski RJ, Mushlin AI, Greenland P (1981) Selection and interpretation of diagnostic tests and procedures. Annals of Internal Medicine, 94:555-600. [Abstract]
• Hanley JA, McNeil BJ (1982) The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Radiology, 143:29-36. [Abstract]
• Hanley JA, McNeil BJ (1983) A method of comparing the areas under receiver operating characteristic curves derived from the same cases. Radiology, 148:839-843. [Abstract]
• Hilgers RA (1991) Distribution-free confidence bounds for ROC curves. Methods of Information in Medicine, 30:96-101. [Abstract]
• Metz CE (1978) Basic principles of ROC analysis. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine, 8:283-298. [Abstract]
• Zweig MH, Campbell G (1993) Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) plots: a fundamental evaluation tool in clinical medicine. Clinical Chemistry, 39:561-577. [Abstract]