Giuseppe Cardillo

You are partially right. If you use only the first column, the routine crashes because the informations in the second column are mandatory. If you want no censored data:
>> x1(:,2)=0; x2(:,2)=0; logrank(x1,x2);

Anyway, a bug was present but I fixed it and upload the new version.

Perhaps, if you email me the data I can understand the error. I think that your input data matrix are in a wrong format.

Hi Giuseppe.
I have had a look at the new release today and I think it is still not perfectly correct. I have validated the scripts using the example data of Hanley and McNeil's 1982 paper: "The Meaning and Use of the Area under a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve", which seems to be the basis for the calculations (such as the approximation of Q_1 and Q_2) anyways. To my opinion the problem is that when integrating over the ROC curve to compute the AUC, the data point (sensitivity=1, specificity=0) is not considered when using the trapezoidal rule. Consequently the AUC value (and all AUC dependent measures) differ slightly from the example in the mentioned article (which becomes more severe for non-continous tests with only a few cut-off points).

Best,
Jens.

Thanks for this file. I used it to confirm the results of my own calculations. Note that errors that you throw probably shouldn't use the term "Warning" in the error text, because that is misleading.

Exhaustively commented, so you get not only the resulting numbers, but also the exact description of what they mean, if you read the source.