Confidence interval for rate ratio in a 2 × 2 table with structural zero: An application in assessing false-negative rate ratio when combining two diagnostic tests

Biometrics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 550-555

  Tang, Man Lai ^a   Tang, Nian Sheng ^b   Carey, Vincent J ^c   Lui, Kung Jong ^d  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic inference; Correlated binary data; False negative rate ratio; Score test; Structural zero

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ERROR ANALYSIS;

ASYMPTOTIC INFERENCE; ASYMPTOTICS; BINARY DATA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATED BINARY DATA; FALSE NEGATIVE RATE; FALSE-NEGATIVE RATE RATIO; RATE RATIOS; SCORE TEST; STRUCTURAL ZERO;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

BIOMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 2942644878     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.203_1.x     Document Type: Article

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