Pulmonology Advisor

New Model Could Predict Risk of Critical Illness in CTD-ILD

Researchers developed a new model to predict the likelihood of critical illness in patients with connective-tissue disease-associated ILD.

ADAPT Study Outlines Dual Cut-Point Protocol for Plasma p-tau217

The ADAPT study validates plasma p-tau217 assays against CSF standards, outlining optimal dual cut-points for clinical ...
Nature

Effect of non-linearity of a predictor on the shape and magnitude of its receiver-operating-characteristic curve in predicting a binary outcome

Area under a receiver-operating-characteristic (AUROC) curve is widely used in medicine to summarize the ability of a continuous predictive marker to predict a binary outcome. This study illustrated ...
Nature

Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis in Diagnostic Medicine

Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis is a foundational statistical methodology for evaluating the discriminatory power of diagnostic tests and classification algorithms. It represents the ...