Revisiting Youden's index as a useful measure of the misclassification error in meta-analysis of diagnostic studies

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 543-554

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a   Böhning, Walailuck ^b   Holling, Heinz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; YOUDEN INDEX;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 58749089517     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280207081867     Document Type: Article

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