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Re: Wilcoxon Two-Sample Test statistic

To: james mugodo <jmugodo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Wilcoxon Two-Sample Test statistic
From: Frank E Harrell Jr <fharrell@virginia.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:05:28 -0500
Cc: s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
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The somers2 function in the Hmisc library computes the area under the ROC.  The 
Hmisc rcorr.cens function will compute the standard error of Somers' Dxy rank 
correlation.  Dxy=2(ROC - .5).  -Frank Harrell

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 01:37:05 -0800 (PST)
james mugodo <jmugodo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I have generated logistic regression models, GAMs and
> classification tree models for presence absence data.
> I want to compare their predictive performance using
> the statistic of the area under the curve of a ROC
> plot. I want to estimate the Area under the curve of a
> ROC plot by dividing the Wilcoxon two-sample test
> statistic by the product of the absence and presence
> data (Hanley and McNeil, 1982). 
> 
> The problem is that S-Plus gives the normal Z
> statistic without specifying the Wilcoxon two-sample
> test statistic. How can I tell S-Plus to give me the
> Wilcoxon two-sample test statistic? 
> 
> Any other ways of estimating the area under the curve
> of a ROC plot using S-Plus would be most appreciated.
> 
> Hanley, J.A. and McNeil, B.J. (1982), "The Meaning and
> Use of the Area under a Receiver Operating
> Characteristic (ROC) Curve," Radiology, 143 29 -36. 
> 
> thanks and cheers
> 
> James
> 
> 
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Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat

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