Statistics notes - Diagnostic tests 4: Likelihood ratios

British Medical Journal

Volumn 329, Issue 7458, 2004, Pages 168-169

  Deeks, Jonathan J ^a   Altman, Douglas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; NOTE; STANDARD;

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS;

EID: 3242737285     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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