Testing the independence of two diagnostic tests

Biometrics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1009-1017

  Shen, Yu ^a   Wu, Dongfeng ^a   Zelen, Marvin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clinical breast exams; Diagnostic tests; Likelihood ratio tests; Mammograms; Wald tests

Indexed keywords

MAMMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL BREAST EXAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; MAMMOGRAM; SCREENING EXAMINATIONS; WALD TEST;

DISEASES;

BIOMETRY; DISEASE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035185557     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2001.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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