Comparing two tests used for diagnostic or screening purposes

DOI10.1016/S0167-7152(98)00067-4MaRDI QIDQ1305264zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Seymour Geisser

Publication date 30 September 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-7152(98)00067-4

zbMATH Keywords

diagnostic testsdichotomizationpredictive value negativepredictive value positivescreening test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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