Comparing diagnostic tests: A simple graphic using likelihood ratios

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 649-663

  Biggerstaff, Brad J ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYME DISEASE; PREDICTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 0034653364     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000315)19:5<649::AID-SIM371>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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