Estimating normative limits of Heidelberg retina tomograph optic disc rim area with quantile regression

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 355-361

  Artes, Paul H ^a   Crabb, David P ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MOORFIELDS REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTILE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AGED; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 75749096996     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3354     Document Type: Article

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