A preference-based measure for test performance with an application to prenatal diagnostics

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 3696-3706

  Felder, Stefan ^a   Robra, Bernt Peter ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Expected utility; Prenatal diagnostics; ROC curve; Test accuracy

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PERFORMANCE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROBABILITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33750327350     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2471     Document Type: Article

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