Variation of sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios and predictive values with disease prevalence

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 981-991

  Brenner, Hermann ^a   Gefeller, Olaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; PREVALENCE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030965771     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970515)16:9<981::AID-SIM510>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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