Validation of the summary ROC for diagnostic test meta-analysis: A Monte Carlo simulation

Academic Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-31

  Mitchell, Matthew D ^a  

^a ECRI   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Meta analysis; Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; MICROCOMPUTER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037215309     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)80784-5     Document Type: Article

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