Testing equality between two diagnostic procedures in paired-sample ordinal data

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 642-652

  Lui, Kung Jong ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^b,c   Lin, Chii Dean ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ordinal scale; Paired sample data; Sensitivity; Specificity; Type I error: Equality

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ORDINAL DATA; ORDINAL SCALE; PAIRED SAMPLE; PAIRED-SAMPLE DATA; SAMPLE DATA; SENSITIVITY; SPECIFICITY; TYPE I ERROR: EQUALITY; TYPE-I ERROR;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 11844306616     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200410062     Document Type: Article

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