A crossed random effects modeling approach for estimating diagnostic accuracy from ordinal ratings without a gold standard

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 3472-3485

  Xie, Yunlong ^a   Chen, Zhen ^a   Albert, Paul S ^a  

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

Author keywords

Endometriosis; MCEM algorithm; Random effects models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ENDOMETRIOSIS; MCEM ALGORITHM; RANDOM EFFECTS MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84882266995     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5784     Document Type: Article

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