New confidence intervals for the difference between two sensitivities at a fixed level of specificity

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 3487-3502

  Qin, Gengsheng ^a   Hsu, Yu Sheng ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^b,c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Confidence intervals; Diagnostic tests; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MELANOMA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; TIME;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750062864     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2459     Document Type: Article

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