Logistic regression and latent class models for estimating positivities in diagnostic assays with poor resolution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1677-1700

  Smith, Tom ^a   Vounatsou, Penelope ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attributable fraction; Bootstrap; EM algorithm; Finite mixture distribution; Monte Carlo simulation; Non parametric regression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOASSAY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAMPLING;

ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION; BOOTSTRAP; DIAGNOSTIC ASSAYS; FINITE MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION; LATENT CLASS MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031338761     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929708832007     Document Type: Article

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