Comparison of approaches to estimate confidence intervals of post-test probabilities of diagnostic test results in a nested case-control study

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Van Zaane, Bas ^a   Vergouwe, Yvonne ^a   Donders, A Rogier T ^b   Moons, Karel Gm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84868248242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-166     Document Type: Article

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