Assessing the dependence of sensitivity and specificity on prevalence in meta-analysis

Biostatistics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 710-722

  Li, Jialiang ^a   Fine, Jason P ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; Diagnostic accuracy; Disease prevalence; Estimating equation; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEOPLASM; OVARY TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOSTATISTICS; CA-125 ANTIGEN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80052784111     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxr008     Document Type: Article

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