Meta-analysis for diagnostic accuracy studies: A new statistical model using beta-binomial distributions and bivariate copulas

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-30

  Kuss, Oliver ^a   Hoyer, Annika ^a   Solms, Alexander ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beta binomial distribution; Copula; Meta analysis; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL; BLADDER CANCER; CLAYTON COPULA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GAUSS COPULA; PLACKETT COPULA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STANDARD MODEL; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BETA-BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COPULA; META-ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY; SPECIFICITY;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84889681963     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5909     Document Type: Article

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