The agreement chart as an alternative to the receiver-operating characteristic curve for diagnostic tests

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 866-874

  Bangdiwala, Shrikant I ^a   Haedo, Ana S ^b   Natal, Marcela L ^c   Villaveces, Andrés ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; B statistic; Likelihood ratios; Predictive values; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 48349094872     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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