An adaptive approach to designing comparative diagnostic accuracy studies

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 116-125

  Wu, Chengqing ^a   Liu, Aiyi ^a   Yu, Kai F ^a  

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

Author keywords

Area under a curve; Receiver operating characteristic; Sample size re estimation; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AREA UNDER CURVE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549034289     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543400701668282     Document Type: Article

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