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Activity Number: 420 - Biomarker Evaluation
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics
Abstract #330143
Title: A Comprehensive/Comparative Review of Cut-Point Selection Methods for Multiple Class Settings
Author(s): Jia Hua* and Lili Tian
Companies: State University of New York At Buffalo and SUNY at Buffalo
Keywords: Cut-point; Diagnostic test; ROC; Youden Index; Ordinal data; Alzheimer's Disease
Abstract:

Cut-points selection is a key topic in the field of diagnostic test. there exist several well-developed methods. Some of these methods have been extended to three stage and general settings. The purpose of this article is two-fold: 1) to propose several new cut-point selection methods; 2) to present a comprehensive review of all the cut-point selection methods under multiple ordinal stage setting. The performance of all the methods is studied and compared based on an extensive simulation study. A real data set on Alzheimer's disease is analyzed.


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