Efficient statistical tests to compare Youden index: Accounting for contingency correlation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1560-1576

  Chen, Fangyao ^a   Xue, Yuqiang ^a   Tan, Ming T ^b   Chen, Pingyan ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Delta method; Kappa coefficient; Paired design; Sensitivity; Specificity; Youden index

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELTA METHOD; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FUZZY SYSTEM; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY; YOUDEN INDEX; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; STANDARDS; TUBERCULOSIS;

BIOMETRY; CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84926302159     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6432     Document Type: Article

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