A method for comparing positive rates of two blood culture systems

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1513-1519

  Qu, Yinsheng ^a   Easley, Kirk A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; McNemar's test; Multinomial distribution; Nonindependent matched pairs data; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BLOOD CULTURE; COVARIATES; CULTURE SYSTEMS; EM ALGORITHMS; INDEPENDENT SAMPLES; MCNEMAR'S TESTS; MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; NONINDEPENDENT MATCHED PAIR DATA; PAIRED BINARY DATUM; SENSITIVITY;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0031466990     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533518     Document Type: Article

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