Confidence bounds for the sensitivity lack of a less specific diagnostic test, without gold standard

Metrika

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 239-263

  Mattner, Lutz ^a   Mattner, Frauke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

CASS data; Clostridium difficile; Conditional independence assumption; EIA; Imperfect reference test; Latent classmodel; Nonidentifiability; Robust statistics of diagnostic tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872927201     PISSN: 00261335     EISSN: 1435926X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00184-012-0385-9     Document Type: Article

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