title: Response to comment on 'Efficient statistical tests to compare Youden index: accounting for contingency correlation'.
authors.affiliation: National Clinical Research Centre for Kidney Disease, State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Fangyao
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: National Clinical Research Centre for Kidney Disease, State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Yuqiang
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8273-6016
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics, Georgetown University Medical Center, 4000 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, USA. ming.tan@georgetown.edu.
authors.forename: Ming T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: National Clinical Research Centre for Kidney Disease, State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China. chenpy99@126.com.
authors.forename: Pingyan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity