No need for a gold-standard test: on the mining of diagnostic test performance indices merely based on the distribution of the test value

No need for a gold-standard test: on the mining of diagnostic test performance indices merely based on the distribution of the test value

Abstract Background Diagnostic tests are important in clinical medicine. To determine the test performance indices — test sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratio, predictive values, etc. — the test results should be compared against a gold-standard test. Herein, a technique is presented through w...

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Main Authors: Farrokh Habibzadeh, Hooman Roozbehi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-01-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Diagnostic test
Data mining
Statistical methods
Biomarkers
Classification and taxonomy
Hepatitis
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-01841-8

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-01841-8

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