A general framework for comparative Bayesian meta-analysis of diagnostic studies

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Menten, Joris ^a,b   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Diagnostic test accuracy; Latent class model; Meta analyses

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84940105316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-015-0061-7     Document Type: Article

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