Date:         Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:42:44 -0500
Reply-To:     John Birken <zbq5@CDC.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         John Birken <zbq5@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      RE Experience with ROC analysis Lehmann distributions

Garnett:

Here are some sources for your ROC - Receiver Operating Characteristics;

Their are some excellent ROC papers in SAS Global Forums.

The following spans general>>> matlab >>>SAS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteristic

Matlab has lots of material start at
http://matlabdatamining.blogspot.com/2007/06/roc-curves-and-auc.html
as well as their biology and communication theory material.

SAS Code:

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/84563.cfm    has SAS code

http://pubs.amstat.org/doi/abs/10.1198/tas.2008.s275

A partial web source of the book you have:
Gonen and Heller's Lehman ROC SAS Book:
ROC modeling using the Lehmann family with SAS

http://books.google.com/books?id=YfJ-vxy_BOsC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq
=ROC+modeling+using+the+Lehmann+family&source=web&ots=dMY5E8UDn4&sig
=3TxE2zDdnTfn1S24cAg6I1xWrz4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result


There is excellent set of ROC literature at harvard.edu

HTH,
John Birken, jbirken@cdc.gov