Cutoff: A Fortran Program for Establishing Thresholds for Screening Indices
- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 52 (4) , 891-893
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164492052004008
Abstract
This paper describes a FORTRAN program that aids in the construction of screening tests by performing a type of ROC analysis as well as calculating measures such as sensitivity and specificity.Keywords
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