Combining dependent tests to compare the diagnostic accuracies - A non-parametric approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1239-1250

  Yang, Yuqing ^a   Jin, Zhezhen ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; Combining dependent tests; Diagnostic accuracy; Non parametric approach; Repeated measurements

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POWER ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; STANDARD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33645466525     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2338     Document Type: Article

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