Meta-analysis of clinical studies of diagnostic tests: Developments in how the receiver operating characteristic "works"

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1585-1590

  Hurley, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICS;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; ODDS RATIO; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 82655181364     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2011-0016-SO     Document Type: Article

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