Using relative utility curves to evaluate risk prediction
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Putting risk prediction in perspective: relative utility curves.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0964-1998,1467-985X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985x.2009.00592.x