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The Effect of Random Error on Diagnostic Accuracy Illustrated with the Anthropometric Diagnosis of Malnutrition
BACKGROUND: It is often thought that random measurement error has a minor effect upon the results of an epidemiological survey. Theoretically, errors of measurement should always increase the spread of a distribution. Defining an illness by having a measurement outside an established healthy range w...
Autores principales: | Grellety, Emmanuel, Golden, Michael H. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5193513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28030627 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168585 |
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