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Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in females worldwide and is major cause of deaths. The diagnoses of breast cancer include mammograms, breast ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ductogram and biopsy. Biopsy is best and only way to know if the breast tumor is cancerous....
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The rapid penetration of smartphones and consumers' increased usage/dependence on mobile applications (apps) has ushered favorable opportunities for retailers as well as shoppers. The traditional brick-and-mortar as well as online retailers must attract shoppers to use mobile shopping apps. For...
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lead to improved treatment and thus reduce medical mistakes. The sensitivity and specificity are two important measurements … confidence interval for the sensitivity at a fixed level of specificity for the test. In this thesis, we propose three empirical … likelihood intervals for the sensitivity. Simulation studies are conducted to compare the empirical likelihood based confidence …
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of sensitivity and specificity for all the possible values of the cut-point. This dissertation concentrates on …
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Sensitivity and specificity are common measures of the accuracy of a diagnostic test. The usual estimators of these … connecting the (sensitivity, 1? specificity) points at each cutpoint of the test using step functions and/or line segments. This …, possibly depending on the result of the diagnostic test and other characteristics of the subjects. Estimators of sensitivity …
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A new multiple testing procedure, called the FDR<Subscript> L </Subscript> procedure, was proposed by Zhang et al. (Ann Stat 39:613–642, <CitationRef CitationID="CR12">2011</CitationRef>) for detecting the presence of spatial signals for large-scale 2D and 3D imaging data. In contrast to the conventional multiple testing procedure, the FDR<Subscript> L </Subscript> procedure...</subscript></citationref></subscript>
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As biotechnology has made remarkable progress nowadays, there has also been a great improvement on data collection with lower cost and higher quality outcomes. More often than not investigators can obtain the measurements of many disease-related features simultaneously. When multiple potential...
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