Estimation of sensitivity and specificity of three conditionally dependent diagnostic tests in the absence of a gold standard

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 360-380

  Engel, Bas ^a   Swildens, Bas ^b   Stegeman, Arjan ^b   Buist, Willem ^a   de Jong, Mart ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Evaluation of diagnostic test; Gibbs sampling; Latent class model

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 33845412638     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/108571106X153534     Document Type: Article

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