A weighted generalized score statistic for comparison of predictive values of diagnostic tests

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 964-977

  Kosinski, Andrzej S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated data; Diagnostic test; Paired design; Positive and negative predictive values; Score statistic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; WALD TEST; WEIGHTED GENERALIZED SCORE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84873989255     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5587     Document Type: Article

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