Epidemiologic issues in the validation of veterinary diagnostic tests

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 3-22

  Greiner, M ^a   Gardner, I A ^b  

^a Dept Trop Vet Med and Epidemiol   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Diagnostic test; Sensitivity; Specificity; Validation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034733007     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(00)00114-8     Document Type: Article

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