Estimating the prevalence of a rare disease: Adjusted maximum likelihood

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 149-158

  Rahme, Elham ^b   Joseph, Lawrence ^a  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Montreal General Hospital ^*

Author keywords

Diagnostic test; Maximum likelihood estimation; Prevalence; Rare disease; Sample size; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002193258     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00120     Document Type: Article

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