Use of Normative Databases and Statistical Methods in Demonstrating Clinical Utility of QEEG: Importance and Cautions

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 82-87

  Prichep, Leslie S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical Utility; Neurometrics; Normative Databases; Quantitative EEG; Sensitivity and Specificity; Validation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DATA BASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ARTIFACT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 23244436086     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155005940503600207     Document Type: Article

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