The diagnostic utility of multiple-level likelihood ratios

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 769-776

  Bowden, Stephen C ^a   Loring, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Evidence based practice; Sensitivity and specificity; Test validity; Wada test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EPILEPSY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; MULTIPLE LEVEL LIKELIHOOD RATIO; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDITY;

DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349427024     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617709990373     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Agresti, A. (2002). Categorical data analysis (2nd ed.) New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2. Baxendale, S.A., Thompson, P.J., & Duncan, J.S. (2008). Evidence-based practice. A reevaluation of the intracarotid amobarbital procedure (Wada Test). Archives of Neurology, 65, 841-845.
3. Baldessarini, R.J., Finkelstein, S., & Arana, G.W. (1983). The predictive power of diagnostic tests and the effect of prevalence of illness. Archives of General Psychiatry, 40, 569-573.
4. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
5. Faust, D. (2003). Holistic thinking is not the whole story. Assessment, 10, 428-441.
6. Frederick, R., & Bowden, S.C. (2008). The test validation summary. Assessment, [Epub ahead of print].
7. Grimes, D.A., & Schulz, K.F. (2005). Refining clinical diagnosis with likelihood ratios. Lancet, 365, 1500-1505.
8. Hosmer, D.W., & Lemeshow, S. (2000). Applied logistic regression (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
9. Ivnik, R.J., Smith, G.E., Cerhan, J.H., Boeve, B.F., Tangalos, E.G., & Petersen, R.C. (2001). Understanding the diagnostic capabilities of cognitive tests. Clinical Neuropsychologist, 15, 114-124.
10. Loring, D.W., Bowden, S.C., Lee, G.P., & Meador, K.J. (in press). Diagnostic utility of Wada memory asymmetries: Sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratio characterization. Neuropsychology.
11. Loring, D.W., Meador, K.J., Lee, G.P., & King, D.W. (1992). Amobarbital effects and lateralized brain function: The Wada test. New York: Springer-Verlag.
12. Loring, D.W., Straus, E., Hermann, B.P., Barr, W.B., Perrinne, K., Trenerry, M.R., et al. (2008). Differential neuropsychological test sensitivity to left temporal lobe epilepsy. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 14, 1-7.
13. MedCalc. (2009). MedCalc for Windows, version 10.0.2. Mariakerke, Belgium: MedCalc Software.
14. Meehl, P.E., & Rosen, A. (1955). Antecedent probability and the efficiency of psychometric signs, patterns, or cutting scores. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 194-216.
15. Paolicchi, J.M. (2008). Is the Wada still relevant? Yes. Archives of Neurology, 65, 838-840.
16. SPSS. SPSS 17.0 for Windows. (2009). Chicago: SPSS Incorporated.
17. Straus, S.E., Richardson, W.S., Glasziou, P., & Haynes, R.B. (2005). Evidence-based medicine: How to practice and teach EBAM (3rd ed.). Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill-Livingstone.
18. Swets, J.A. (1992). The science of choosing the right decision threshold in high stakes diagnostics. American Psychologist, 47, 522-532.
19. Wilkinson, L., & APA Task Force on Statistical Inference. (1999). Statistical methods in psychology journals: Guidelines and explanations. American Psychologist, 54, 594-604.
20. Woods, S.P., Weinborn, M., & Lovejoy, D.W. (2003). Are classification accuracy statistics underused in neuropsychological research? Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 25, 431-439.
21. Zakzanis, K.K. (2001). Statistics to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: Formulae, illustrative numerical examples, and heuristic interpretation of effect size analyses for neuropsychological researchers. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 16, 653-667.
22. Zweig, M.H., & Campbell, G. (1993). Receiver-Operating Characteristic (ROC) plots: A fundamental evaluation tool in clinical medicine. Clinical Chemistry, 39, 561-577.