Assessing screening tests: Extensions of McNemar's test

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 2207-2217

  Lachenbruch, Peter A ^a   Lynch, Cornelius J ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032531910     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19981015)17:19<2207::AID-SIM920>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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