Estimates of diagnostic accuracy efficacy: How well can this test perform the classification task?

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 80-86

  Trop, Isabelle ^a   Stolberg, Harald O ^b   Nahmias, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STANDARD;

CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037530423     PISSN: 08465371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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