Testing non-inferiority ( and equivalence) between two diagnostic procedures in paired-sample ordinal data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 545-559

  Lui, Kung Jong ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Equivalence; Non inferiority; Ordinal scale; Paired sample data; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITALIZATION; EVALUATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCY;

EID: 1142287527     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1607     Document Type: Article

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