Information graphs for epidemiological applications of the Kullback-Leibler divergence

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hughes, Gareth ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS COMPUTING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84892410459     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1627066     Document Type: Letter

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