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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Instituto Nacional de Estatística | Statistics Portugal
2005-06-01
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| author | Basílio de Bragança Pereira Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira |
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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, the likelihood is the only source of information available. Also, it is shown that there is no difference of interpretation of the concept of likelihood in statistics and in clinical diagnostic tests. This contradicts what is usually stated.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c5ed4f68bb064b63af888e8bc1bb6f2e2022-12-22T03:05:05ZengInstituto Nacional de Estatística | Statistics PortugalRevstat Statistical Journal1645-67262183-03712005-06-013110.57805/revstat.v3i1.19A likelihood approach to diagnostic tests in clinical medicineBasílio de Bragança Pereira 0Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira 1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Universidade de São Paulo 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, the likelihood is the only source of information available. Also, it is shown that there is no difference of interpretation of the concept of likelihood in statistics and in clinical diagnostic tests. This contradicts what is usually stated. https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/19credibilitydiagnosabilitylikelihoodplausibilitysensitivitysignificance |
| spellingShingle | Basílio de Bragança Pereira Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira A likelihood approach to diagnostic tests in clinical medicine Revstat Statistical Journal credibility diagnosability likelihood plausibility sensitivity significance |
| title | A likelihood approach to diagnostic tests in clinical medicine |
| title_full | A likelihood approach to diagnostic tests in clinical medicine |
| title_fullStr | A likelihood approach to diagnostic tests in clinical medicine |
| title_full_unstemmed | A likelihood approach to diagnostic tests in clinical medicine |
| title_short | A likelihood approach to diagnostic tests in clinical medicine |
| title_sort | likelihood approach to diagnostic tests in clinical medicine |
| topic | credibility diagnosability likelihood plausibility sensitivity significance |
| url | https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/19 |
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