The latent class model for multiple binary screening tests

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2283-2295

  Lau, Tai Shing ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LATENT PERIOD; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOPSY; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTOFLUOROGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030702870     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971030)16:20<2283::AID-SIM658>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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