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

DOI10.2307/3315793MaRDI QIDQ3979449zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph L. Gastwirth, W. O. Johnson, Dana M. Reneau

Publication date 26 June 1992

Published in The 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

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

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• 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

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