 A comparison of statistical methods for prenatal screening for Down syndromeChristopher J. Williams, Sauchi Stephen Lee, Rachel A. Fisher and Lois H. Dickerman Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 1999, vol. 15, issue 2, 89-101 Abstract: Currently, prenatal screening for Down Syndrome (DS) uses the mother's age as well as three biochemical markers for risk prediction. Risk calculations for the biochemical markers use a quadratic discriminant function. In this paper we compare several classification procedures to quadratic discrimination methods for biochemical‐based DS risk prediction, based on data from a prospective multicentre prenatal screening study. We investigate alternative methods including linear discriminant methods, logistic regression methods, neural network methods, and classification and regression‐tree methods. Several experiments are performed, and in each experiment resampling methods are used to create training and testing data sets. The procedures on the test data set are summarized by the area under their receiver operating characteristic curves. In each experiment this process is repeated 500 times and then the classification procedures are compared. We find that several methods are superior to the currently used quadratic discriminant method for risk estimation for these data. The implications of these results for prenatal screening programs are discussed. Date: 1999 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wly:apsmbi:v:15:y:1999:i:2:p:89-101 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry from John Wiley & Sons |
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