Bayesian analysis of screening data: Application to AIDS in blood donors

DOI10.2307/3315793zbMath0738.62099OpenAlexW1996396601MaRDI QIDQ3979449

Joseph L. Gastwirth, Dana M. Reneau, Wesley O. Johnson

Publication date: 26 June 1992

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315793

zbMATH Keywords

sensitivityspecificityscreening testsblood donorsprevalence of AIDSrare disease

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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Cites Work

• The role of exchangeability in inference
• The statistical precision of medical screening procedures: application to polygraph and AIDS antibodies test data. With comments and a rejoinder by the author
• Applications of a Method for the Efficient Computation of Posterior Distributions
• Accurate Approximations for Posterior Moments and Marginal Densities

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