Modelling population heterogeneity in sensitivity and specificity of a multi-stage screen for objective sleep apnoea

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 1995-2008

  Ten Have, Thomas R ^a   Bixler, Edward O ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SCREENING; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0030870931     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970915)16:17<1995::AID-SIM611>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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