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Chapter 9: Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a “Gold Standard”

The classical paradigm for evaluating test performance compares the results of an index test with a reference test. When the reference test does not mirror the “truth” adequately well (e.g. is an “imperfect” reference standard), the typical (“naïve”) estimates of sensitivity and specificity are bias...

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Autores principales: Trikalinos, Thomas A., Balion, Cynthia M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22648677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-012-2031-7