Youden's Index and the Likelihood Ratio Positive in Diagnostic Testing.

Böhning, D

Böhning, D.

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Böhning D; Dankmar Böhning, Professor in Medical Statistics, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, Building 39, Room 3019, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK, E-mail: d.a.bohning@soton.ac.uk.

Methods Inf Med ; 54(4): 382-3, 2015.

Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26063628

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

We refer to a recent letter to the editor by Hughes and show that, despite existing similarities between Youden's index and the log-likelihood ratio positive, important differences between these two measures remain to exist which can play an important difference in clinical practice.

Assuntos

Testes Diagnósticos de Rotina; Humanos

Palavras-chave

Taylor series approxima-tion; Youden's index; diagnostic testing; likelihood ratio positive

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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Testes Diagnósticos de Rotina Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Methods Inf Med Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article

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