A test for diagnostic utility

DOI10.2307/3315836zbMATH Open0725.62094OpenAlexW1982272278MaRDI QIDQ5203535FDOQ5203535

Authors: Vernon T. Farewell, Marlos A. G. Viana 

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315836

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zbMATH Keywords

sensitivitydiagnostic testspecificityBayesian testpredictive valuelikelihood-ratio procedures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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