Diagnostic accuracy measures

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 267-272

  Eusebi, Paolo ^a  

^a Regional Health Authority of Umbria   (Italy)

Author keywords

Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; Diagnostic accuracy; Diagnostic odds ratio; Likelihood ratios; Predictive values; Receiver operating characteristic; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GOLD STANDARD; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ODDS RATIO; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LIKELIHOOD RATIO; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; POWER OF A TEST; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AREA UNDER CURVE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84885503135     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000353863     Document Type: Article

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