Comparing two tests used for diagnostic or screening purposes

DOI10.1016/S0167-7152(98)00067-4zbMath0944.62101MaRDI QIDQ1305264

Seymour Geisser

Publication date: 30 September 1999

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

diagnostic testsscreening testdichotomizationpredictive value negativepredictive value positive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

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• The statistical precision of medical screening procedures: application to polygraph and AIDS antibodies test data. With comments and a rejoinder by the author
• Assessing the Diagnostic Utility of a Test
• A test for diagnostic utility

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