"TAGS", a program for the evaluation of test accuracy in the absence of a gold standard

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 67-81

  Pouillot, Régis ^a   Gerbier, Guillaume ^a   Gardner, Ian A ^b  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic tests; EM algorithm; Latent class model; Maximum likelihood; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EVALUATION STUDIES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0037074612     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(01)00272-0     Document Type: Article

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