Confidence interval construction for sensitivity difference of two continuous-scale diagnostic tests at the fixed level of two specificities

Nian-Sheng Tang and Xian-Gui Luo

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2015, vol. 97, issue C, 32-40

Abstract: We propose five confidence intervals for sensitivity difference of two continuous-scale diagnostic tests at the fixed level of two specificities based on the generalized pivotal quantity method, the hybrid method and the Bootstrap resampling method.

Keywords: Agresti–Coull interval; Generalized confidence interval; Wald confidence interval; Wilson score interval (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2014.10.016

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