Bootstrap confidence intervals for the sensitivity of a quantitative diagnostic test

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 313-322

  Platt, Robert W ^a,b   Hanley, James A ^a   Yang, Hong ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034651805     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000215)19:3<313::AID-SIM370>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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