Estimating Diagnostic Accuracy of Raters Without a Gold Standard by Exploiting a Group of Experts

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1294-1302

  Zhang, Bo ^a   Chen, Zhen ^b   Albert, Paul S ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic error; Imperfect tests; Model selection; Prevalence; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GOLD STANDARDS; IMPERFECT TESTS; LATENT CLASS MODEL; MODEL SELECTION; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE STANDARD; SENSITIVITY; SPECIFICITY;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871645315     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01789.x     Document Type: Article

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