A GEE approach to estimating sensitivity and specificity and coverage properties of the confidence intervals

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 9-10, 2001, Pages 1529-1539

  Sternberg, Maya R ^a   Hadgu, Alula ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CALCULATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAMETER; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OREGON; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VAGINAL SMEARS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0035873979     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.688     Document Type: Article

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