Common pitfalls in statistical analysis: Understanding the properties of diagnostic tests – Part 1

In this article in our series on common pitfalls in statistical analysis, we look at some of the attributes of diagnostic tests (i.e., tests which are used to determine whether an individual does or does not have disease). The next article in this series will focus on further issues related to diagn...

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Autores principales: Ranganathan, Priya, Aggarwal, Rakesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Statistics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5799952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29430417
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/picr.PICR_170_17
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spelling pubmed-57999522018-02-09 Common pitfalls in statistical analysis: Understanding the properties of diagnostic tests – Part 1 Ranganathan, Priya Aggarwal, Rakesh Perspect Clin Res Statistics In this article in our series on common pitfalls in statistical analysis, we look at some of the attributes of diagnostic tests (i.e., tests which are used to determine whether an individual does or does not have disease). The next article in this series will focus on further issues related to diagnostic tests. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5799952/ /pubmed/29430417 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/picr.PICR_170_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Perspectives in Clinical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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