Properties of the hui and walter and related methods for estimating prevalence rates and error rates of diagnostic testing procedures

Drug Information Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 605-615

  Sinclair, Michael D ^a   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b,c  

^a MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification errors; Diagnostic tests; Evaluation design; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034114839     PISSN: 00928615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009286150003400229     Document Type: Article

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