Evaluating diagnostic tests for Chlamydia trachomatis in the absence of a gold standard: A comparison of three statistical methods

Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 385-397

  Dendukuri, Nandini ^a   Wang, Liangliang ^b   Hadgu, Alula ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Biased estimator; Chlamydia trachomatis; Composite reference standard; Latent class models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BAYES THEOREM; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMPOSITE REFERENCE STANDARD; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; STANDARD LATENT CLASS MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

EID: 83655206027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19466315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/sbr.2011.10005     Document Type: Article

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