The efficiency of the sets and the cuscore techniques under biased baseline rates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1401-1411

  Chen, Rina ^a   Connelly, Roger R ^b   Mantel, Nathan ^c  

^a ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORBIDITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030809032     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970630)16:12<1401::AID-SIM566>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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