Effect of dependent errors in the assessment of diagnostic or screening test accuracy when the reference standard is imperfect

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 1129-1138

  Walter, S D ^a   MacAskill, P ^a   Lord, Sarah J ^b,c   Irwig, L ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias; Correlated test errors; Diagnosis; Imperfect reference standard; Screening; Test accuracy

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DEPENDENT ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASES; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84861188842     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4444     Document Type: Article

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