Likelihood ratios, sensitivity, and specificity values can be back-calculated when the odds ratios are known

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 458-460

  Simel, David L ^a   Easter, Joshua ^b   Tomlinson, George ^c,d,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Likelihood ratio; Meta analysis; Odds ratio; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LIKELIHOOD RATIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; ODDS RATIO; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84875254182     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.07.014     Document Type: Article

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