A graphical method for assessing agreement with the mean between multiple observers using continuous measures

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1308-1313

  Jones, M ^a   Dobson, A ^a   O'brian, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Agreement; Precision; Reliability; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; PRECISION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80755144008     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr109     Document Type: Article

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