Statistical discrimination in the presence of selection effects

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1219-1232

  Hilliam, R M ^a,b  

^a DERBY CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 16844367017     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1998     Document Type: Article

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