Improved confidence intervals for the sensitivity at a fixed level of specificity of a continuous-scale diagnostic test

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 465-477

  Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a,b   Qin, Gengsheng ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial proportion; Bootstrap method; Confidence intervals; Diagnostic accuracy; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE, BB FORM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MELANOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 13644260285     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1563     Document Type: Article

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