A model for evaluating sensitivity and specificity for correlated diagnostic tests in efficacy studies with an imperfect reference test

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 443, 1998, Pages 920-928

  Qu, Yinsheng ^a   Hadgu, Alula ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional independence; EM algorithm; Finite mixture models; Item response theory; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032332425     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473748     Document Type: Article

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