Estimating Diagnostic Accuracy from Multiple Conflicting Reports: A New Meta-analytic Method

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 313-321

  Littenberg, Benjamin ^a   Moses, Lincoln E ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; META ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMAN; META-ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027715844     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9301300408     Document Type: Article

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