Dr Tahani Coolen-Maturi tahani.maturi@durham.ac.uk
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Nonparametric predictive inference for diagnostic test thresholds
Coolen-Maturi, T.; Coolen, F.P.A.; Alabdulhadi, M.
Authors
Professor Frank Coolen frank.coolen@durham.ac.uk
Professor
M. Alabdulhadi
Abstract
Measuring the accuracy of diagnostic tests is crucial in many application areas including medicine, machine learning and credit scoring. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and surface are useful tools to assess the ability of diagnostic tests to discriminate between ordered classes or groups. To define these diagnostic tests, selecting the optimal thresholds that maximize the accuracy of these tests is required. One procedure that is commonly used to find the optimal thresholds is by maximizing what is known as Youden’s index. This article presents nonparametric predictive inference (NPI) for selecting the optimal thresholds of a diagnostic test. NPI is a frequentist statistical method that is explicitly aimed at using few modeling assumptions, enabled through the use of lower and upper probabilities to quantify uncertainty. Based on multiple future observations, the NPI approach is presented for selecting the optimal thresholds for two-group and three-group scenarios. In addition, a pairwise approach has also been presented for the three-group scenario. The article ends with an example to illustrate the proposed methods and a simulation study of the predictive performance of the proposed methods along with some classical methods such as Youden index. The NPI-based methods show some interesting results that overcome some of the issues concerning the predictive performance of Youden’s index.
Citation
Coolen-Maturi, T., Coolen, F., & Alabdulhadi, M. (2020). Nonparametric predictive inference for diagnostic test thresholds. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 49(3), 697-725. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2018.1549249
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 8, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 28, 2018 |
Publication Date | 2020 |
Deposit Date | Oct 9, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods |
Print ISSN | 0361-0926 |
Electronic ISSN | 1532-415X |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 49 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 697-725 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2018.1549249 |
Related Public URLs | http://tahanimaturi.com/onewebmedia/Comu_Stat_2018_rev.pdf |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in statistics - theory and methods on 28 December 2018 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2018.1549249
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