Analysis of differences in proportions from clustered data with multiple measurements in diagnostic studies

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 548-552

  Schwenke, Carsten ^a   Busse, R ^b  

^a BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^b University of Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binary data; Clustered data; Diagnostic study; Proportions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 35349001266     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/ME0433     Document Type: Article

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