Comment on 'A qualitative approach to Bayes' theorem' by Medow and Lucey

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 80-

  Henríquez, Aquiles Rodrigo ^a,b   Moreira, Juan ^c   Van Den Ende, Jef ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA PARTICULAR DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

^c Ministry of Health of Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; POWER ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 85028125515     PISSN: 13565524     EISSN: 14736810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebmed-2011-100493     Document Type: Letter

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