Matched-sample analysis: Sensitivity, specificity, and P values

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 474-475

  Tamhane, Ashutosh ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTIFERON TB GOLD ASSAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 39349092208     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524893     Document Type: Letter

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