Estimating disease prevalence in the absence of a gold standard

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 2653-2669

  Black, Michael A ^a   Craig, Bruce A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian model averaging; Correlated binary data; Gold standard; Prevalence; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 0037201010     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1178     Document Type: Article

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