Calculating Confidence Intervals for Threshold and Post-Test Probabilities

M.D. Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 110-115

  Hozo, Iztok ^a   Djulbegovic, Benjamin ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD CELL COUNT; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032013689     PISSN: 07246811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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