Sequential evaluation of a medical diagnostic test with binary outcomes

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 4416-4427

  Shu, Y ^a   Liu, A ^b   Li, Z ^a,c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic medicine; Interim analysis and early stopping; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; URINALYSIS;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35148844985     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2881     Document Type: Article

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