A perspective on standardizing the predictive power of noninvasive cardiovascular tests by likelihood ratio computation: 1. Mathematical principles

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1061-1071

  Weissler, Arnold M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0033500996     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/74.11.1061     Document Type: Article

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