How to deal with dichotomous tests? Application of a rankit ordinal scale model with examples from the Nordic ordinal scale project on screening tests

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 298-311

  Petersen, Hyltoft P ^a   Christensen, Gade N ^a   Sandberg, S ^a   Nordin, G ^b   Pedersen, M ^c   Mortensson, A ^b   Latvala, A ^d   Vanhanen, A R ^d   Jorgensen N ^c   Rustad, P ^e   Olafsdottir, E ^f   Jensen, E ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b EQUALIS   (Sweden)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d Labquality   (Finland)

^e Norwegian Clinical Chemistry EQA Program   (Norway)

^f Icelandic Society for Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine   (Iceland)

^g Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance of Primary Healthcare Laboratories   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Confirmation limit; External quality assessment; Probability transformation; Qualitative tests; Screening tests; Semi quantitative measurements; Sensitivity limit; Urine hCG and nitrites

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIT ORDINAL SCALE MODEL; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; URINALYSIS;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRITES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC;

EID: 46949087862     PISSN: 00365513     EISSN: 15027686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365510701742592     Document Type: Article

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