On estimating diagnostic accuracy from studies with multiple raters and partial gold standard evaluation

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 481, 2008, Pages 61-73

  Albert, Paul S ^a   Dodd, Lori E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic error; Latent class models; Misclassification; Semilatent class models

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349097705     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214507000000329     Document Type: Article

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