title: Application of resampling techniques to the statistical analysis of the Brier score.
abstract: We investigated the application of resampling techniques to the statistical analysis of the Brier score (B), and extended them to the statistical comparison of two Bs derived from the same set of patients. The resampling techniques are helpful in the statistical analysis of B, and there are almost no differences between the jackknife method and the bootstrap method in this analysis. Thus, we believe that B should be used more often as an index to evaluate probabilistic judgments in the case in which the data sets for the assessment are "degenerate" as the "receiver operating characteristic data sets."
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Information and Medical Records, Nagoya University Hospital, Japan. a40495a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ishigaki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011336:Probability; D012372:ROC Curve; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed