Evaluating a new test using a reference test with estimated sensitivity and specificity
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
- Vol. 20 (9), 2739-2752
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610929108830665
Abstract
Methodology is proposed for evaluating a new test using a reference test. Unlike previous methodology, sensitivity and the specificity of the reference test are not assumed to be known; instead they are estimated from data comparing the reference test with a gold standard.Keywords
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