A likelihood approach to diagnostic tests in clinical medicine

A likelihood approach to diagnostic tests in clinical medicine

This paper presents a pure likelihood approach to statistical inference and its relation to diagnostic tests in clinical medicine. The standard antagonistic frequentist approaches of Fisher and Neyman–Pearson–Wald, and the Bayesian perspective are discussed. We advocate that in medicine, usually, t...

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Main Authors: Basílio de Bragança Pereira, Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Estatística | Statistics Portugal 2005-06-01
Series:Revstat Statistical Journal
Subjects:
credibility
diagnosability
likelihood
plausibility
sensitivity
significance
Online Access:https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/19

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