Likelihood Ratio Reporting/In reply/In reply/In reply

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...To the Editor: The critique of likelihood ratio reporting by Weissler and Bailey1...make sense to use a definition of the likelihood ratio that works generally for all types...generality, clarity, and consistency, the likelihood ratio associated with a particular test...

Generalized cross-validation for bandwidth selection of backfitting...

Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......bandwidth selection for estimation in generalized additive models. The method is based on the generalized cross-validati...regression techniques are the generalized additive models and additive models, introduced by Hastie and Tibshirani (1987...

A perspective on standardizing the predictive power of nonivasive...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Likelihood ratio measures may be used as a standard...negative test results. The positive likelihood ratio, (+)LR, expresses the power of a...a given population; the negative likelihood ratio, (-)LR, expresses the power of a...

AMlet, RAMlet, and GAMlet: automatic nonlinear fitting of additive models,...

Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......nonparametrically the components of additive models using wavelets. The estimator enjoys...then extended to estimate generalized additive models. A primal-dual log-barrier interior...simulation. Key Words: (Generalized) additive models; Convex programming; Data mining...

Diagnosing appendicitis in children with abdominal pain. (Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  August 1, 2002 ;     643 words ......lower quadrant increases the likelihood ratio for appendicitis. The accompanying...of vomiting increased the likelihood ratio for appendicitis. Physical...rigidity also increased the likelihood ratio of the diagnosis. Important...

Nonparametric likelihood ratio estimation of probabilities for truncated...

Journal of the American Statistical Association;  September 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......sub.0] directly from a nonparametric likelihood ratio. For example, we form a confidence...analog of the classical parametric likelihood ratio theory, which is known to have many...estimation of a single probability, the likelihood ratio approach also can be used to assess...

(book reviews)

Journal of the American Statistical Association;  December 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ...Generalized Additive Models T. J. Hastie and R. J. Tibshirani...Tibshirani, the authors of Generalized Additive Models, are at the forefront of a community...to narrow the gap. Generalized additive models (GAM) refers to a class of nonparametric...

Comparing curves using additive models

Journal of Quality Technology;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......In this paper, a relatively new class of models called additive models is used to assess the sources of variation active on these...introduced a new and powerful class of models called generalized additive models (GAMs). In this paper, a GAM that combines smoothers and...

generalized maximum likelihood ratio test statistic

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics;      27 words ...generalized maximum likelihood ratio test statistic The ratio of the maximum likelihoods of the observed value under the parameters for the null and alternative hypotheses.

Semiparametric Regression.(Book Review)

Technometrics;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......smoothing of one continuous predictor. 8, Additive Models. Ideas and issues in fitting additive models that involve the smoothing of multiple...linear mixed models. 11, Generalized Additive Models. Extension of ideas in the previous...

Referral Bias in SPECT

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  May 1, 2002 ;     255 words ......sensitivity of 98%, a specificity of 13%, a likelihood ratio for a positive test of 1.1, and a likelihood ratio for a negative test of 0.15. Test...a specificity of 67% or 75%, a likelihood ratio for a positive test of 2.0 or 2.7...

Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm.(Review)

Technometrics;  February 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the author advocates the use of the likelihood ratio as a measure of the strength of evidence...evidence, a foundation for the use of the likelihood ratio and the law of likelihood to measure...author lays a foundation for use of the likelihood ratio as a measure of the strength of ...

Parametric simultaneous confidence bands for cumulative distributions from...

Technometrics;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......statistics with local information, and likelihood ratio statistics. We compare standard large-samp...KEY WORDS: Bootstrap; Life data; Likelihood ratio; Probability of detection; Reliability...Type I censoring, the Wald and the likelihood ratio statistics no longer have the pivotal...

Inference for likelihood ratio ordering in the two-sample problem.

Journal of the American Statistical Association;  September 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......satisfy a stronger condition called likelihood ratio ordering. If distributions F and G...g, then the condition required for likelihood ratio ordering is given by f(x)/g9x) is...where the underlying distributions are likelihood ratio ordered. Ross (1983) and Shanthikumar...

A fully automated bandwidth selection method for fitting additive models.

Journal of the American Statistical Association;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...1. INTRODUCTION Additive models (Hastie and Tibshirani 1990...with care. Researchers fitting additive models can, of course, select bandwidths...data-driven method for fitting additive models, which would include a theoretically...