Reassessing accuracy rates of median decisions

American Statistician

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 132-138

  Capotorti, Andrea ^a   Lad, Frank ^b   Sanfilippo, Giuseppe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asbestosis; Coherence; Exchangeability; Fundamental theorem of prevision; Linear programming; Medical diagnosis; Predictive values; Probability bounds; Quadratic programming; Second opinions; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248362401     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313007X190943     Document Type: Article

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