Bayesian Reasoning in Medicine
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Medical Decision Making
- Vol. 11 (2), 107-111
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989x9101100206
Abstract
The role of Bayesian reasoning in medicine is explored from the perspective of the writings of Dr. Lee B. Lusted. Starting with the influential article by Ledley and Lusted published in Science in 1959, the contributions of Dr. Lusted and his coauthors to medical education and clinical medicine are chronicled. An explication of Bayes' theorem and its reliance on the conditional independence assumption is followed by a summary of some applications to the interpretation of diagnostic tests. Opportunities for and challenges to the widespread appli cation of Bayesian reasoning in daily clinical medicine are described.Keywords
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