Comparing two tests used for diagnostic or screening purposes

Seymour Geisser

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1998, vol. 40, issue 2, 113-119

Abstract: We present a Bayesian approach to the comparison of two binary diagnostic tests in a decision framework. We also show how a binary test that depends on a random variable may be optimally dichotomized with respect to the loss function.

Keywords: Bayes; Decision; framework; Diagnostic; test; Dichotomization; Predictive; value; negative; Predictive; value; positive; Screening; test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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