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SUBMITTER: Wang C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6884669 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Chunling C Lin Xiaoyan X Nelson Kerrie P KP
Statistical methods in medical research 20190530 4
The diagnostic accuracy of a test or rater has a crucial impact on clinical decision making. The assessment of diagnostic accuracy for multiple tests or raters also merits much attention. A Bayesian hierarchical conditional independence latent class model for estimating sensitivities and specificities for a large group of tests or raters is proposed, which is applicable to both with-gold-standard and without-gold-standard situations. Through the hierarchical structure, not only are the sensitivi ...[more]