When William of Ockham meets Thomas Bayes: Finding a few diagnoses among a great many symptoms

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1403-1407

  Sonnenberg, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b VA Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

AGED; APPENDICITIS; BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034846813     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.2001.01036.x     Document Type: Article

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