Correlation-adjusted estimation of sensitivity and specificity of two diagnostic tests

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-76

  Georgiadis, Marios P ^a   Johnson, Wesley O ^a   Gardner, Ian A ^a   Singh, Ramanpreet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; Data augmentation approach; Dependent screening tests; Gibbs sampling; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141798922     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00389     Document Type: Article

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