This article proposes a new lack-of-test based on the weighted ratio of residuals and variances for partially linear regression models. The large and small sampling properties of the proposed test are established. The...This article proposes a new lack-of-test based on the weighted ratio of residuals and variances for partially linear regression models. The large and small sampling properties of the proposed test are established. The testing procedure is illustrated via several examples. Simulation studies show that the testing procedures are powerful even in small samples. An application of the test to a real data set is presented.展开更多
We consider the estimation of three-dimensional ROC surfaces for continuous tests given covariates.Three way ROC analysis is important in our motivating example where patients with Alzheimer's disease are usually ...We consider the estimation of three-dimensional ROC surfaces for continuous tests given covariates.Three way ROC analysis is important in our motivating example where patients with Alzheimer's disease are usually classified into three categories and should receive different category-specific medical treatment.There has been no discussion on how covariates affect the three way ROC analysis.We propose a regression framework induced from the relationship between test results and covariates.We consider several practical cases and the corresponding inference procedures.Simulations are conducted to validate our methodology.The application on the motivating example illustrates clearly the age and sex effects on the accuracy for Mini-Mental State Examination of Alzheimer's disease.展开更多
基金partially supported by the Major Project of Humanities Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education under Grant No.08JJD910247Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education under Grant No. 108120+3 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.11271368Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.1102021the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universitiesthe Research Funds of Renmin University of China under Grant Nos.10XNL018 and 11XNH107
文摘This article proposes a new lack-of-test based on the weighted ratio of residuals and variances for partially linear regression models. The large and small sampling properties of the proposed test are established. The testing procedure is illustrated via several examples. Simulation studies show that the testing procedures are powerful even in small samples. An application of the test to a real data set is presented.
基金support provided by the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center(NACC)supported by National University of Singapore Academic Research Funding(Grant No.R-155-000-109-112)+2 种基金a CBRG grant from the National Medical Research Council in Singapore,NACC(Grant No.U01AG16976)the National Institute of Health(Grant No.R01EB005829)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.30728019)
文摘We consider the estimation of three-dimensional ROC surfaces for continuous tests given covariates.Three way ROC analysis is important in our motivating example where patients with Alzheimer's disease are usually classified into three categories and should receive different category-specific medical treatment.There has been no discussion on how covariates affect the three way ROC analysis.We propose a regression framework induced from the relationship between test results and covariates.We consider several practical cases and the corresponding inference procedures.Simulations are conducted to validate our methodology.The application on the motivating example illustrates clearly the age and sex effects on the accuracy for Mini-Mental State Examination of Alzheimer's disease.
