Analytic methods for comparing two dichotomous screening or diagnostic tests applied to two populations of differing disease prevalence when individuals negative on both tests are unverified

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 853-862

  Berry, Geoffrey ^a   Smith, Catherine L ^a   Macaskill, Petra ^a   Irwig, Les ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diagnostic tests; Sensitivity and specificity; Statistical epidemiological methods

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL ETHICS; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FECES; FEMALE; GUAIAC; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037196879     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1066     Document Type: Article

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