Accounting for nonignorable verification bias in assessment of diagnostic tests

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 163-171

  Kosinski, Andrzej S ^a   Barnhart, Huiman X ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic test; Nonignorable missing data; Verification bias

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

'CURRENT; COVARIATES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; GOLD STANDARDS; MISSING DATA; NONIGNORABLE MISSING DATA; STANDARD TESTS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; TEST PERFORMANCE; VERIFICATION BIAS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

THALLIUM;

DISEASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0037368751     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1541-0420.00019     Document Type: Article

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