Chen, Xiwei; Vexler, Albert; Markatou, Marianthi - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 82 (2015) C, pp. 186-198
A novel smoothed empirical likelihood (EL) approach that incorporates kernel estimation of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) to construct nonparametric confidence intervals of AUC based on the best linear combination (BLC) of biomarkers is proposed. The method has...