Understanding the properties of diagnostic tests – Part 2: Likelihood ratios

Diagnostic tests are used to identify subjects with and without disease. In a previous article in this series, we examined some attributes of diagnostic tests – sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values. In this second article, we look at likelihood ratios, which are useful for the interpretat...

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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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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5950618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29862204
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/picr.PICR_41_18
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spelling pubmed-59506182018-06-01 Understanding the properties of diagnostic tests – Part 2: Likelihood ratios Ranganathan, Priya Aggarwal, Rakesh Perspect Clin Res Statistics Diagnostic tests are used to identify subjects with and without disease. In a previous article in this series, we examined some attributes of diagnostic tests – sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values. In this second article, we look at likelihood ratios, which are useful for the interpretation of diagnostic test results in everyday clinical practice. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5950618/ /pubmed/29862204 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/picr.PICR_41_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Perspectives in Clinical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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