Screening without a "gold standard": The Hui-Walter paradigm revisited

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 153, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 921-924

  Johnson, Wesley O ^a   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b   Pearson, Larry M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; Diagnostic test; Gibbs sampler; Likelihood; Prevalence; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; PARAMETER; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; SAMPLE; SCREENING; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 0035340354     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/153.9.921     Document Type: Article

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