Predicting smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis with classification trees and logistic regression: A cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  De Queiroz Mello, Fernanda Carvalho ^a   Do Valle Bastos, Luiz Gustavo ^a   Machado Soares, Sérgio Luiz ^a   Rezende, Valéria M C ^a   Conde, Marcus Barreto ^a   Chaisson, Richard E ^b   Kritski, Afrânio Lineu ^a   Ruffino Netto, Antonio ^c   Werneck, Guilherme Loureiro ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PREDICTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMEAR; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33644965074     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-43     Document Type: Article

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